HPV ACTION CEASED OPERATIONS ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2020


​After a successful 5-year campaign led by HPV Action, HPV vaccination for boys as well as girls has now started throughout the UK. All boys and girls aged 12/13 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland or 11/12 in Scotland should be offered the HPV jab at some stage during the 2019/20 school year. (Although the programme will inevitably be disrupted by the COVID-19 emergency.) More information is available on the NHS website.

HPV Action continued to make the case for a catch-up vaccination programme for  older boys (up to 18 years) who missed out. However, in March 2020, the government's vaccination advisory committee decided not to recommend a catch-up programme. This was very disappointing but not unexpected not least because there is currently a global HPV vaccine shortage.

The achievement of HPV Action's main goal of gender-neutral vaccination was a major advance in public health of which its 51 member organisations can be very proud. 

HPV Action ceased operations on 30 September 2020. Several of its members are now supporting a new campaign, led by the European Cancer Organisation, which aims to eliminate HPV-caused cancers and other diseases from the region. More information about this campaign is available here.

30 September 2020.

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