Human Vaccines
Volume 6, Issue 8  August 2010
http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/vaccines/toc/volume/6/issue/8/

Short Report
The Spanish human papillomavirus vaccine consensus group: A working model

Javier Cortés-Bordoy and Federico Martinon-Torre

Successful implementation of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in each country can only be achieved from a complementary and synergistic perspective, integrating all the different points of view of the diverse related professionals. It is this context where the Spanish HPV Vaccine Consensus Group (Grupo Español de Consenso sobre la Vacuna VPH, GEC-VPH) was created. GEC-VPH philosophy, objectives and experience are reported in this article, with particular attention to the management of negative publicity and anti-vaccine groups. Initiatives as GEC-VPH -adapted to each country’s particular idiosyncrasies- might help to overcome the existing barriers and to achieve wide and early implementation of HPV vaccination.