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A simple way to promote HPV vaccination among Asian American women: Storytelling

  • Written by Minjin Kim, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Rates of HPV screenings and vaccinations remain low for some subgroups of Asian American women.Getty Images / Peter Dazeley

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – what demographers call AAPIs – are the nation’s fastest-growing minority. Close to 20 million now live in the U.S. But you wouldn’t know it from our public health...

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