Impact of HPV Vaccine (BBC Breakfast)

Broadcaster: BBC1

Year: 2019

Genre: Magazine piece, interview

Duration: 4 mins

URL: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/147914

An interview was conducted jointly with Sophia Lowes from Cancer Research UK in the Salford studio, and GP Philippa Kaye (via link from London) to discuss a new paper in the British Medical Journal. See also this website for more details on the story. The resarch, a retrospective population study, compared rates of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in 20 year old women who had been vaccinated aged 12-13 and those who had not.  The results give strong support to the vaccination programme.

In this clip (4 mins, broadcast 4th April 2019), Health Information Officer Lowes and GP Kaye discuss the importance of the research in justifying vaccination of girls before they become sexually active.

See also this clip from the 6 O’Clock News on the same day.