European Cancer Organisation shared a post on LinkedIn: .
“The Council of the European Union is taking significant steps to eliminating vaccine-preventable cancers
New recommendations have been adopted at the EPSCO – Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council meeting today. Here are the key highlights:
- Introducing 19 measures to boost HPV and HepB vaccination uptake by removing structural barriers for disadvantaged and high-risk groups
- Expanding access to vaccination by providing the service free of charge or fully reimbursable
- Enhancing data-driven decision-making for vaccination programmes
- Ensuring the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control will display national data on HPV coverage rates in EU member states on a dedicated dashboard by the end of the year
- Promoting a target for the percentage of boys to be vaccinated against HPV by 2030.
- Focusing on high-risk groups for HepB and reaching the 2030 goal of hepatitis elimination through 95% vaccination coverage.
Read the full recommendations here.
We are eager to help member states implement these actions. Together, we can achieve a world where vaccine-preventable cancers are a thing of the past.”