The vaccine was provided by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda, without charge to the Ministry of Health; The government’s expectation is that around 3.2 million will be immunized in 2024
The first doses of the vaccine arrived in Brazil this Saturday 20th. dengue vaccine provided free of charge by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda a Ministry of Health. There are around 750 thousand doses in this first shipment and, in February, another 570 thousand doses are expected to arrive, the ministry says. The expectation is that the country will receive 5.2 million doses by November, immunizing with at least one dose approximately 3.2 million people by the end of 2024 – two doses are foreseen for a complete vaccination scheme.
Application of the immunizing agent should begin between February to the Unified Health System (SUS) – In the private network, some clinics have already been offering the vaccine since last year -, the government predicts. Initially, alone children and adolescents aged 10 to 14 (age group that concentrates the greatest number of hospitalizations for dengue), considering those who live in Municipalities where numerous cases of the disease are recorded.
“The Ministry of Health has agreed, together with Conass and Conasems – bodies representing the health departments of states and municipalities – the criteria to define the municipalities that will receive the doses, following the recommendations of the Technical Advisory Chamber on Vaccinations (CTAI) and the ‘WHO,’ the folder says.
“The vaccines will be intended for health regions with large municipalities with high transmission in the last ten years and a resident population of 100,000 or more, also taking into account the high rates of recent months.” The list of Municipalities and the vaccination strategy will be communicated by the Ministry of Health in the next few days.
You the elderly also have priority – even before children -, but the application of the product in this group is at a standstill was not released by Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). As soon as the announcement is made they will be included in the vaccination calendar.
According to the Ministry, this is the forecast in 2024 only risk groups will be vaccinatedconsidering the limited production capacity of the vaccine and the need to administer two doses per person for it to be effective, with a minimum interval of three months.
Brazil is the first country in the world to offer the vaccine in the universal public system and also the country with the highest number of cases of the disease in the world, according to World Health Organization (WHO). The Ministry of Health incorporated the dengue vaccine in December 2023.
Source: Terra
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