Guidelines in Flux

Abstract

Ethnicity, contraceptive use, having a recent sexually transmitted infection, and parity were not found to be significant predictors of completion.CONCLUSION: Although the vaccine was provided for free, completion rates were far from ideal. This suggests that cost of the vaccine may not be an important barrier toward completion of the vaccine schedule and that other factors like knowledge of the dosing schedule and awareness of the benefits provided by the vaccine should be emphasized among adolescent women.