Medical centres offer HPV vaccination in colleges123rf A helping hand. Upper Hutt's medical centres are coming together to give local college students - boys and girls - the opportunity to receive the HPV vaccine at their own schools. "Having the medical centres working together as a group like this can only help improve the health outcomes in our community. READ MORE:* Government hailed for funding extension of 'improved' HPV vaccine* Parents choose HPV vaccination for sons to protect from cancer* HPV vaccine subsidised for boys in 2017"Clinical staff will visit the colleges in the coming weeks to administer the vaccine to those students who wish to have it. "We applaud this initiative and are pleased to see the collaboration of the local medical centres," Te Awakairaingi Health Network general manager Paul Abernethy said.

Source: Stuff March 09, 2017 20:10 UTC