HPV jabs for young boys

A CAMPAIGN to vaccinate all 12­year­old boys against the human papillomavirus (HPV) has been launched by the Balearic Islands Health department.

The vaccination campaign is aimed at up to 6,800 children and will take place throughout 2023 and 2024.

Initially, the HPV vaccine was only aimed at 12­yearold girls and certain specific high ­ risk groups, but the Spanish National Health Service in October last year decreed that boys should also be included.

Meanwhile, the regional Health authorities plan to

THE airports in the Balearic Islands were responsible for more than 20 per cent of profits for Spanish managing company AENA last year.

Palma, Maó and Ibiza generated one fifth of the more than €900 million in air travel throughout the country from January to December 2022, with the region exceeding profit expectations in the second half of the year.

In fact, Mallorca airport was the only one in Spain to