April 2021 - Online Technical Meeting
Meeting objectives
- Increasing access to HPV vaccination
- Discuss experiences and opportunities to sustain/reinforce/implement HPV vaccination in different regions across the world, in general and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Discuss innovations that may help to achieve access targets such as, improved vaccination schedules, single dose, training and communication of Health Care Workers, etc.
- Review successful country examples with increased access to vaccination and high vaccination coverage.
- Discuss need for future research and trials.
- Discuss lessons learnt from Covid-19 and how these opportunities can be leveraged to increase access to vaccination.
- Increasing access to cervical cancer screening and treatment
- Discuss experiences and opportunities to sustain/reinforce/implement screening and treatment programs across different regions in the world, in general and during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Discuss innovations that may help to achieve access targets such as, self-sampling, availability of HPV tests, point of care screening technology, artificial intelligence-based screening, digitally reaching out to women, etc.
- Review successful country examples with increased access to screening and treatment.
- Discuss need for future research and trials.
- Discuss lessons learnt from Covid-19 and how to leverage these opportunities to increase access to cervical cancer screening and treatment.
Background document
Thursday, 15 April 2021
SESSION 1: OPENING AND OBJECTIVES
SESSION 2A: SUSTAINING/REINFORCING HPV VACCINATION
Chairs: Suzanne Garland & Liudmila Mosina
- Strategies used during Covid-19 and re-starting HPV vaccinationProgram in England
Joanne Yarwood (Public Health England)
(Pdf, Video) - Getting HPV vaccination back on track in the US & Update on National HPV Vaccination Roundtable’s efforts
Noel Brewer (University of North Carolina)
(Pdf, Video) - Regaining vaccine coverage in Colombia – lessons learnt
Xavier Bosch (Institut Català d'Oncologia) (Pdf, Video)
Carlos Castro (Colombian League Against Cancer) (Pdf, Video) - Questions & Discussions (Video)
SESSION 2B: FUTURE APPROACHES FOR HPV VACCINATION
Chairs: Paul Bloem & Iacopo Baussano
- One dose – current status and findings
Aimee Kreimer (NCI)
(Pdf, Video) - HPV extended second dose – current status and findings
Chantal Sauvageau (Quebec National Public Health Institute)
(Pdf, Video) - Questions & discussions (Video)
- Are countries improving their HPV vaccination coverage? A trend analysis of WHO HPV vaccination coverage estimates 2010-2019
Laia Bruni (Institut Català d'Oncologia)
(Pdf, Video) - Questions & discussion (Video)
SESSION 3: LESSONS LEARNT FROM COVID-19: LEVERAGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HPV VACCINATION
Chair: Susanne Krüger Kjaer
- HPV vaccine acceptance in a time of Covid-19
Heidi Larson (Vaccine Confidence Project LSHTM)
(Pdf, Video) - Lessons learned during deployment of a new smartphone-based safety monitoring system
Tanya Myers (CDC)
(Pdf, Video) - Questions & Discussions (Video)
SESSION 4: BREAKOUT SESSION
- Breakout Sessions (All participants)
Chairs: Narendra Kumar Arora, Anna Giuliano & Silvia de Sanjosé - Topics:
- Lessons Learnt and Way Forward
- Sharing HPV vaccination programs experiences - Plenary feedback & Concluding points (Video)
Friday, 16 April 2021
INTRODUCTION
SESSION 5A: Re-STARTING/REINFORCING CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING AND TREATMENT PROGRAMS
Chairs: Jack Cuzick & Murat Gultekin
- Impact of Covid-19 on cervical cancer screening programmes in LMICs
Partha Basu (IARC)
(Pdf, Video) - Short Update on cervical cancer screening programs and trials
Yin Lin Woo (Malaysia) (Video)
Alejandra Castanon (England) (Video)
Sharon Hanley (Japan) (Pdf, Video)
Maribel Almonte (ESTAMPA study) (Pdf, Video) - Question & Discussions (Video)
SESSION 5B: OPPORTUNITIES FOR CO-TESTING (HIV & HPV)
Chairs: Somesh Kumar & Alex Vorsters
- Opportunities for co-testing (HIV & HPV): reinforcing access
Julie Torode (UICC) (Pdf, Video)
Lisa Huang (Expertise France) (Pdf, Video) - Question & Discussions (Video)
SESSION 6: LESSONS LEARNT FROM COVID-19: LEVERAGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING AND TREATMENT
Chairs: Marc Arbyn & Partha Basu
- Impact of Covid-19 testing on HPV testing
Mario Poljak (University of Ljubljana)
(Pdf, Video) - Use of self-sampling for triage
Jack Cuzick (Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London)
(Pdf, Video)
Use of AI for cervical cancer testing and treatment - Use of AI for cervical cancer screening
Silvia de Sanjosé (NCI, PATH) &
Kanan Desai (NCI)
(Pdf, Video) - New Generation Colposcopies and the role of AI
Murat Gultekin (Hacettepe University Hospitals)
(Pdf) - Questions & Discussion (Video)
SESSION 7: BREAKOUT SESSION
- Breakout session
Chairs: Mario Poljak & Eduardo Franco - - Discuss need for future research and trials.
- Steps for reinforcing cervical cancer screening
- Steps for reinforcing HPV vaccination - Plenary feedback (Video)
SESSION 8: CONCLUSION
Chair: Alex Vorsters
- Conclusions and Concluding remarks
Marc Baay (P95) & Alex Vorsters (University of Antwerp)
(Video)