Introduction Video

December 2021 - Hybrid Country Meeting

Meeting objectives:

  • Discuss the healthcare system and prevention and control measures in France
  • Review how prevention and control programs are organised within the French healthcare system
  • Provide a summary of the epidemiology, burden of disease and surveillance related to HPV and HPV related cancers in France.
  • Cervical cancer screening and treatment in France
  • Give an overview of the current control measures in France
  • Discuss successes, topical issues and challenges related to HPV screening and treatment
  • Review the possible implementation of alternative screening methods and strategies such as self-sampling
  • HPV vaccination in France
  • Give an overview of the current HPV vaccination program
  • Discuss successes, topical issues and challenges related to HPV vaccination
  • Discussing the state of vaccine confidence, associated challenges and possible solutions to increase vaccine coverage rate.
  • Discuss the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on vaccine confidence and reviewing change of perception, beliefs and opinions towards vaccination
  • Discussing the efforts and stakeholders’ involvement in social mobilisation and creating awareness.
  • Gain insight in the various stakeholder perspectives.
  • Review country examples from other regions to learn from their successes and challenges.
  • Discuss propositions regarding the way forward.

Introduction Video

Thursday, 2 December 2021

SESSION 1: OPENING AND OBJECTIVES

  • Welcome & Introduction
    Alex Vorsters (University of Antwerp)
    (Pdf, Video)

SESSION 2: SETTING THE SCENE: THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN FRANCE
Chairs: Pierre Van Damme & Didier Riethmuller

  • Organization of prevention and control programs within the French health care system
    Roman Rouzier
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Organization of the French Vaccination Technical Committee
    Agathe Billette de Villemeur
    (Pdf)

  • Mandatory vaccination in France
    Catherine Weil-Olivier
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Surveillance of Cancers in France
    Anne-Sophie Woronoff
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Questions & Discussions (Video)

SESSION 3: HPV EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING IN FRANCE
Chairs: Mario Poljak & Kate Cuschieri

  • Surveillance of HPV in France
    Jean-Luc Prétet
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Cervical Cancer Screening. The transition from cytology to HPV based screening
    Christine Clavel
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Practical organization of the French Cervical Cancer Screening system
    Anne Garnier
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Challenges in cervical cancer screening programme in France
    Christine Bergeron
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Self-sampling as alternative/additional strategy in France
    Caroline Lefeuvre
    (Pdf)

  • Questions & discussion (Video)

SESSION 4: HPV VACCINATION IN FRANCE
Chairs: Eduardo Franco & Roman Rouzier  

  • HBV and HPV vaccine development and implementation
    Pierre Coursaget
    (Pdf)

  • HPV vaccination in France
    Didier Riethmuller
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Role of HCP in HPV vaccine hesitancy in France
    Pierre Verger
    (Pdf, Video)

  • History of the anti-vax in France
    Olivier Jourdain
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Insights into HPV vaccine confidence in France
    Emilie Karafillakis
    (Pdf, Video)

  • HPV vaccination in schools Pilot project in Guyana
    Claire Grenier
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Questions & Discussions (Video)

SESSION 5: BREAKOUT SESSION

  • Breakout Sessions  (All participants)

Topics:

- Steps for reinforcing cervical cancer screening
Chairs: Jean Luc Prétet & Christine Clavel

- Steps for reinforcing HPV vaccination
Chairs: Margaret Stanley & Didier Riethmuller

  • Plenary feedback & concluding points (Video)

Friday, 3 December 2021

  • Welcome & Introduction
    Alex Vorsters (University of Antwerp) (Video)

SESSION 6: TREATMENT OF CERVICAL AND HPV RELATED CANCERS
Chairs: Silvia de Sanjosé & Murat Gültekin

  • Treatment of Cervical Cancer in France
    Jean Levêque
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Use of Radical Trachelectomy in young women
    Patrice Mathevet
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Head and Neck Cancers in France
    Haitham Mirghani

  • Question & Discussions (Video)

SESSION 7: IMPORTANT STAKEHOLDERS IN HPV PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Chairs: Heidi Larson 

  • HPV Vaccine Crisis and the Media in Japan
    Sharon Hanley
    (Pdf)

  • Optimising HPV vaccination communication to adolescents
    Judith Mueller
    (Pdf)

  • (Nearly) 20 years of Infovac- France: daily Q&R…
    Catherine Weil-Olivier
    (Pdf, Video)

  • Questions & Discussions (Video)

SESSION 8: BREAKOUT SESSION
Chairs: Christine Bergeron, Miguel Angel Pavón Ribas & TBC

  • 3 breakout groups: Lessons learnt from the meeting
  • Plenary Feedback (Video)

SESSION 9: CONCLUSION
Chairs: Nubia Muñoz & Alex Vorsters

  • Conclusions and Concluding Remarks (Pdf)