--- title: HPV Vaccine and Rates of Genital Warts description: A new study links the HPV vaccine to a sharp decrease in genital warts canonical: https://time.com/3303973/hpv-vaccine-genital-warts/ author: Mandy Oaklander article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-08T16:36:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:03:43.570Z article:section: Health og:title: HPV Vaccine Cut Rates of Genital Warts 61%, Study Finds og:description: A new study links the HPV vaccine to a sharp decrease in genital warts og:url: https://time.com/3303973/hpv-vaccine-genital-warts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67c175a0829f5104/6986a2653617606d2c90dc01/hpv.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2566 og:image:height: 1443 og:image:alt: Papillomavirus Dna Virus. 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Hdri Image Made According To A View Under Transmission Electron Microscope, Viral Diameter 45 To 55 Nm.BSIP/UIG/Getty Images  by [Mandy Oaklander](https://time.com/author/mandy-oaklander/)  ## Mandy Oaklander Oaklander is a senior editor at TIME. Sep 8, 2014 4:36 PM UTC The HPV vaccine is working for young women in Australia, suggests a new [study](http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105967) published in the journal _PLOS One_. Researchers analyzed a database of more than 1 million patients and found that since Australia began providing the HPV vaccine free to women ages 15-27 in 2007, the rate of genital warts fell 61% from four years before the vaccination program began. The team from the University of Sydney saw no significant change in the rates of genital warts among other age groups not covered by the program, and other sexually transmitted infections didn’t decrease over this period. That suggests the vaccine is responsible, not a change in sexual behavior, the authors say. “Due to this reduction, some young women in Australia have been spared the distress of having genital warts and the health system spared the cost of having to treat them,” the authors wrote in the study. Of course, the HPV vaccine helps prevent more than genital warts. It’s the only [vaccine to protect against cancer](http://time.com/3030398/theres-a-vaccine-against-cancer-but-people-arent-using-it/) (the kind in the cervix, anus, and mouth). 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