Anita Lukács
Anita Lukács is an Assistant Professor and public health researcher at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research focuses on the health status of children and adolescents; she is particularly interested in the ways of prevention of infectious and non-infectious diseases. As a teacher, she highlights the importance of compulsory and recommended vaccinations in the prevention of infections. Her current work focuses on the importance of introducing a HPV vaccination program in many countries, as the population level impact of the vaccine is especially high.
Quadrivalent HPV vaccine is protective against genital warts
A meta-analysis published today in BMC Public Health finds that prophylactic, quadrivalent HPV vaccination can prevent genital warts in healthy women and men. Anita Lukács, author of the study, tells us more in this blog.
What is HPV?
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted infectious agent and is increasingly common in young people. HPV is linked to several cancers – especially cervical cancer – and genital warts (GW).
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