By Rick Nauert
PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on June 4, 2009
Informing men that a new vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) would also help protect their female partners against developing cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted infection did not increase their interest in getting the vaccine.
Mary Gerend, assistant professor of medical humanities and social sciences at Florida State University School of Medicine, and Jessica Barley, a 2008 Florida State psychology graduate who based her honors thesis on the study, found that men are no more likely to want the vaccination just because they can help protect their female sexual partners.
An HPV vaccine for women has been available since 2006, and a vaccine for men is likely to be approved in the near future.
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