With low adherence, the Ministry of Health extends the National Vaccination Campaign until 30 September

To date, only 35% of children between the ages of 1 and 5 have received a polio vaccine; see the list of vaccines for children and adolescents

or Ministry of Health announced this Tuesday, 6, that the Polio vaccination and multivaccination campaign 2022 it will last until September 30th. The mobilization, which began on 8 August, was supposed to end next Friday, 9, but the deadline was extended due to the poor adhesion of the target audience – children and adolescents – to immunizers.

By extending the duration of the campaign, the ministry intends to increase vaccination coverage, in particular that of polio, also known as infantile paralysis, which is low. So far only 35% of children between 1 and 4 have been taken to places to receive the protective dose against the disease and only 4 million vaccines have been applied since the start of the campaign.

The ministry’s goal is to vaccinate 95% or more of the target audience, in a scenario where 14.3 million children can receive the immunizer.

In 1994, Brazil received the certificate of elimination of the disease from the World Health Organization (WHO), but experts and health authorities warn of the return of the virus and the possibility of new outbreaks in countries where vaccination coverage is low. Nations like the United States and Israel, which had not identified cases of the disease in nearly three decades, submitted positive diagnoses for poliovirus contamination in 2022.

In Brazil, polio vaccination rates in children up to 1 year of age have declined every year and, since 2015, the country has been unable to meet the goal of vaccinating 95% of the campaign’s target audience. Last week, the Department of Health of Rorainópolis, a municipality located within Roraimaannounced that he is investigating a suspected case of polio in a 14-year-old girl.

The polio campaign is aimed at children under the age of five. Those under the age of 1 must still be immunized according to the vaccination status for the primary schedule, while those between the ages of 1 and 4 must take a dose of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), provided they have already received The three-dose inactivated polio vaccine (VIP) of the core regimen, given in the first months of life.

“The National Immunization Program (PNI) warns about the importance and benefits of vaccination, to avoid reintroduction of the polio virus, since Brazil received the certificate of elimination of the disease in 1994 ?, warns the Ministry. della Salute in note.

multivaccination

The polio vaccine is not the only vaccine to be distributed during the campaign. Also part of the mobilization are a number of other immunizing agents (see list below) that are part of the National Immunization Calendar and are offered free of charge by the Unified Health System (SUS). The distribution of doses is aimed at children and adolescents who have an incomplete or delayed vaccination schedule.

Even after September 30, the vaccines are still available at the municipal ASLs for the rest of the year. However, it is during the campaign period that Health Departments make hours more flexible, extend dates (Saturdays, for example), promote vaccination efforts (“D-days”) and adopt strategies to facilitate access to the immunizer to the public target and, consequently, expand vaccination coverage.

The vaccination campaign coincides with the immunization against covid-19, but the ministry recalls that the coronavirus vaccines can be administered simultaneously with the vaccinations of the National Calendar, in the population from three years of age.

List of vaccines available in the Multivaccination campaign

For children, the available vaccines are:

– Hepatitis A and B

– Penta (prevents diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, meningitis caused by the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b and hepatitis B)

– Pneumococcus 10 brave

– Inactivated polio vaccine (VIP)

– Human rotavirus (HRV) vaccine

– Meningococcal C (conjugated)

– Oral polio vaccine (OPV)

– Yellow fever

– MMR (prevents measles, rubella, mumps)

– Tetraviral (prevents measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox)

– Triple bacterial or DTP (prevents diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough)

– Chickenpox

– Quadrivalent HPV (Human Papillomavirus)

For adolescents the available vaccines are:

– Double bacterial vaccine HPV Adult or dT (protects against diphtheria and tetanus)

– Yellow fever

– Triple viral

– Hepatitis B

– Triple bacterial vaccine or dTpa (prevents diphtheria, tetanus pertussis)

– Meningococcus ACWY (conjugate)

Source: Terra

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