The campaign of multiple vaccinations for children under the age of 15 ends on Tuesday

The multi-vaccination campaign to update the vaccination booklet for children and adolescents under the age of 15 ends on Tuesday (30). According to the State Department of Health (SES-PE), the strategy established by the Department of Health is to expand vaccine coverage to prevent new cases of some vaccine-preventable diseases such as polio and hepatitis A and B triplex. viral, human rotavirus, and dTp, among others. In Pernambuco, pollination coverage remains below the estimated minimum target, between 80 and 95%.

“It is very important for the population to keep in mind that the immunization agents available in this national campaign are already part of the blueprint for these masses and, therefore, vaccines for diseases such as polio, MMR, meningococcal, pneumococcal, dtp, among others. Vaccination rooms are available year-round.So, if you have a son or daughter or are responsible for a child or adolescent under the age of 15, it is important to research the more than 2,400 vaccination rooms in the state, equipped with a vaccination booklet, for a specialist to analyze. If that individual needs a dose of the vaccine,” reinforces the state’s superintendent of vaccinations, Anna Catarina de Mello.

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Currently in the state, vaccination coverage against vaccinations intended for the public less than one year is defined as: BCG (73.59%), pneumococcal (68.71%), pentavalent (66.91%), polio (66.67%), meningococcal ( 65.47%) and human rotavirus (65.10%).

For those over one year of age, the situation follows the same profile: hepatitis A (62.94%), trivirus – D1 and D2 (72.26% and 44.07%), meningococcal C (66.37%), pneumococcus (66.15) %), polio – first fortification (52.04%), 2-arm (40.13%) dTp – first fortification (57.61%), second fortification (47.28%), chicken pox (63.91%).

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For children under 7 years of age, the units provide the following immunizing agents: BCG, hepatitis B, pentavalent, polio, rotavirus, pneumococcal 10, meningococcal C, yellow fever, MMR, chickenpox, hepatitis A and DTP . Hepatitis B, yellow fever, meningococcal ACWY, HPV, and chickenpox can be dosed starting at age seven and up to children under 15 years old.

Adolescents who have already taken the Covid-19 vaccine can receive vaccines against other diseases simultaneously or at any time between doses of different immunobiologicals. Last October, the Ministry of Health granted permission for the joint administration of Covid-19 and other vaccines in the Vaccine Calendar.