Steps to eliminating vaccine-preventable cancers taken by The Council of the European Union – European Cancer Organisation

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.”

Source: European Cancer Organisation/LinkedIn