[Vaccination: Protection for boys against genital warts and cancer via human papillomavirus infection].

Vaccination qualifies as the most effective medical procedure worldwide. Using the example of human papillomavirus(HPV)-associated benign and malignant diseases, the incidence, diagnostics, treatment, particularly however, the option of sustainable elimination of all these entities by achieving herd immunity by a gender balanced inoculation quota of 80% at the age of 9-17 years are shown.