The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that 11- and 12-year-old boys routinely receive
HPV vaccinations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/health/policy/26vaccine.htmlThe article notes that private insurers use the committee's recommendations to determine what vaccines they will pay for and that under last year's federal health-care overhaul, insurers participating in the health-insurance exchanges created by the law must offer the vaccines that the committee recommends as routine.