Promoting Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Through African American Beauty Salons

"The educational messages during the education session will engage individual women, their peer group, their family members and community influencers in a way that is authentic and share-able. Involving women in give-and-take discussions with people they trust and respect-their hairdressers-will be essential to increasing the number of them who consider the HPV vaccine for themselves and for those they care about.~The investigators plan to recruit eight (8) predominantly African American beauty salons in Philadelphia and train multiple stylists in each salon to act as in-salon educators and facilitators for client recruitment to sexual health education sessions. These education sessions will be run by trained health educators (also African American females) and take place during down times in each of the salons, on a rotating basis. There will be two types of sessions offered, one for mothers of females ages 9-18 and one for females ages 18-26."