The European Public Health Alliance, supported by its members, recommends for inclusion in the upcoming EU Council Recommendation on vaccine-preventable cancers, sections and commitments related to:
- Accelerating the achievement of HPV cancer elimination through universal and gender-neutral vaccination.
- Increasing coverage of HBV vaccination including for new-borns, children and risk-groups.
- Ensuring a focus on inequalities throughout the recommendation with specific actions to reach excluded, marginalised, and discriminated groups.
- Ensuring a stable supply environment for HPV and HBV vaccines across Europe so as to improve access.
- Committing Member States to further facilitate access to vaccination and to implement coordinated vaccination catch-up programmes among the population.
- Enhancing EU level action against misinformation and disinformation about vaccination on social media.
- Actively tracking and monitoring progress towards the achievement of HPV and HBV cancers elimination goals.
- Creating synergies between the European Commission and World Health Organisation in implementing policies and strategies for the elimination of all cancers and diseases caused by HPV and HBV.
- Urging Member States to adopt public health strategies that include educational campaigns at a multi-stakeholders level.
