CDC: Boys should receive HPV vaccine Nurse.com News Monday October 31, 2011 In a significant step in the effort against complications from human papilloma virus, a committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has approved recommendations for routine vaccination of males ages 11 and 12 with three doses of HPV4. The HPV vaccine will afford protection against certain HPV-related conditions and cancers in males, and may also provide indirect protection of women by reducing transmission of HPV, according to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The CDC has had a “permissive” recommendation in place the past two years for the use of the vaccine in boys, but had not issued a “routine” recommendation. The committee’s decision adds HPV shots to the routine childhood immunization schedule pending approval by the CDC, according to Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. In males ages 13 to 21 who have no