{"id":54709,"date":"2015-07-08T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54709"},"modified":"2015-07-08T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T02:59:30","slug":"b-c-moves-to-protect-at-risk-young-males-with-free-hpv-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/08\/b-c-moves-to-protect-at-risk-young-males-with-free-hpv-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. moves to protect at risk young males with free HPV vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54710\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Gardasil_vaccine_and_box_new.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54710\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Gardasil_vaccine_and_box_new.jpg\" alt=\"HPV vaccine (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Gardasil_vaccine_and_box_new.jpg 470w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Gardasil_vaccine_and_box_new-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Gardasil_vaccine_and_box_new-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HPV vaccine (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VICTORIA \u2013 The British Columbia government is expanding an immunization program to better protect boys and young men who may be more vulnerable of contracting human papillomavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in September, boys and men up to age 26 will be eligible for publicly funded HPV vaccine that offers broad protection from the most common sexually-transmitted infection.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, girls are eligible for the free HPV immunization program, protecting heterosexual boys, as well, but at-risk boys and young men who live on the street or have sex with males were still unprotected.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Terry Lake says it is important to address the gap because the virus can lead to serious health problems and possibly develop into an HPV-related cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Young men and boys who are eligible for the free vaccine can access the vaccine through their local health unit.<\/p>\n<p>Since the HPV vaccine was approved, 175 million doses have been provided worldwide and monitoring shows it continues to be a low-risk option to help prevent HPV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA \u2013 The British Columbia government is expanding an immunization program to better protect boys and young men who may &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":54710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-54709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}