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Genital Herpes Vaccine

Majority of parents would allow children to be vaccinated against genital herpes

Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 2nd, 2005

The majority of U.S. parents would allow their children to be vaccinated against genital herpes.

In a recent study, researchers in the United States conducted a study "to describe parents' acceptance of a hypothetical herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) vaccine, attitudes toward vaccine legislation, beliefs regarding appropriate timing of vaccination, and correlates of vaccine acceptance using a telephone survey of 315 parents/guardians in the Southeast United States. Descriptive statistics describe the sample's overall attitudes toward HSV-2 vaccination, vaccine legislation, and age preferences. A logistic regression model tested the correlates of intention to...

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