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Volume 22, Number 1—January 2016
Research

Human Papillomavirus Vaccination at a Time of Changing Sexual Behavior

Iacopo BaussanoComments to Author , Fulvio Lazzarato, Marc Brisson, and Silvia Franceschi
Author affiliations: International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (I. Baussano, F. Lazzarato, S. Franceschi); University of Turin, Turin, Italy (F. Lazzarato); University of Piemonte Orientale Avogadro, Novara, Italy (F. Lazzarato); Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Québec City, Québec, Canada (M. Brisson); Université Laval, Québec City (M. Brisson); Imperial College, London, UK (M. Brisson)

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Changes in prevalence of human papillomavirus type 16 among women 20–34 years of age in relation to the number of years since the beginning of a population’s transition from traditional to gender-similar age-related sexual behavior and the introduction of vaccination among 11-year-old girls (with assumption of 70% coverage) before and after transition. Shaded area shows an assumption of a 15-year transition period. Arrows show approximate timing of vaccination occurring before or after a transit

Figure 2. Changes in prevalence of human papillomavirus type 16 among women 20–34 years of age in relation to the number of years since the beginning of a population’s transition from traditional to gender-similar age-related sexual behavior and the introduction of vaccination among 11-year-old girls (with assumption of 70% coverage) before and after transition. Shaded area shows an assumption of a 15-year transition period. Arrows show approximate timing of vaccination occurring before or after a transition has occurred. Traditional sexual behavior indicates a population in which genders have different age-specific sexual activity rates and a wide gap in ages (e.g., an average of 5.6 years, as observed in India) of spouses or cohabitating sexual partners. Gender-similar sexual behavior indicates a population in which genders have similar age-specific sexual activity rates and a narrow gap in ages (e.g., an average of 2.1 years, as observed in the United States) of spouses or cohabitating sexual partners.

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