Toronto’s public health department expands HPV vaccine plan for teen girls.

Toronto Public Health is expanding its Human Papillomavirus vaccine program to give teenage girls who missed their HPV vaccinations in Grade 8 a chance to get the shots for free at clinics throughout the city.
The vaccine protects against certain strains of HPV, which is the primary cause of genital warts and the agent behind about 70 per cent of cervical cancers.
The expansion to the vaccine program began at a temporary clinic at the Scarborough Civic Centre in the city’s east end on Monday, where girls aged 13 to 19 could receive inoculations.
Lisa Li, 17, was one of the dozens of girls at the clinic. She said most of the teens she knows were inoculated when they were in Grade 8.
“You could choose whether or not to get it and I guess my dad chose for me not to get it at that time,” she said.