Overview
- Germany’s vaccine advisory panel Stiko recommends HPV vaccination for girls and boys aged 9–14 with two doses, or three doses if started at 15 or later, ideally before first sexual contact.
- Coverage remains low: in 2024 only 55% of 15-year-old girls and 36% of boys were fully vaccinated nationwide, with Saarland reporting 58% and 34% respectively.
- The Robert Koch Institute attributes roughly 10,000 cancer cases each year in Germany to HPV, including cervical as well as anal, penile, and head-and-neck cancers.
- New outreach ranges from Munich’s municipal vaccination offer for minors to a Brandenburg school media competition backed by multiple insurers and an HPV information popup at Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz on March 5.
- International benchmarks highlight what higher uptake can achieve, with Scotland reporting no cervical cancer in cohorts vaccinated since 2008 and the WHO aiming for 90% of girls vaccinated by age 15 by 2030.