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<p>Human papillomavirus (HPV) triage testing is performed in the screening programme
on specimens collected from women attending for cervical screening which show borderline
or low grade abnormalities. If this test identifies a high-risk HPV infection then
the woman will be referred to colposcopy. No further HPV testing is conducted in colposcopy
on these specimens to identity the specific HPV types. It is not the role of colposcopy
to test HPV infections.</p><p>However, Public Health England does carry out surveillance
which has demonstrated a reduction in the HPV types included in the vaccines since
the introduction of the national vaccination programme.</p>
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