In alignment with this Objective 14 promoting HPV Vaccination, Governor Dayton proclaimed June 8th HPV Cancer Free Day. Public statements supporting a new national HPV vaccination campaign were also released by the American Cancer Society, University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.
Mission: HPV Cancer Free is a new public health campaign to eliminate vaccine-preventable HPV cancers, starting with cervical cancer. The goal of the campaign is to have 80 percent of 13-year-old boys and girls in the US fully vaccinated with HPV vaccine by 2026—20 years after introduction of the first HPV vaccine. There is also a National HPV Roundtable which has developed a whole host of new resources to promote HPV vaccination this summer.
In October 2017, MN Community Measurement joined the MN Cancer Alliance and the American Cancer Society in a joint letter to medical groups highlighting the inclusion of HPV vaccine in their Adolescent Immunizations Measure. They will report this new combination measure for the first time later this fall.
