JAMA
July 14, 2015, Vol 314, No. 2
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/issue.aspx

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Research Letter
State Vaccination Requirements for HPV and Other Vaccines for Adolescents, 1990-2015
Jason L. Schwartz, PhD, MBE; Laurel A. Easterling
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This study reports on the changes to the vaccination recommendations by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the status of implementation of requirements by the states.

Eight years after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines were first recommended in the United States, vaccination coverage is substantially below the Healthy People 2020 target of 80%.1 Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that 37.6% of adolescent girls and 13.9% of adolescent boys had completed the 3-dose series in 2013.2 Recent efforts to address these deficits emphasize that HPV vaccines should not be viewed or treated differently than other routinely recommended vaccines…