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Children and adolescents have a delayed vaccination book, reports the Ministry

Children and adolescents have a delayed vaccination book, reports the Ministry

By September 22nd, children and adolescents must attend the vaccination posts to update their immunization. This is the period of the Multivacination Campaign of the Ministry of Health, launched by Minister Ricardo Barros, in Brasilia.

This year, more than 47 million children under the age of five will be called, children of nine years and adolescents of 10 to 15 years incomplete to update the vaccination calendar. More than half (53%) of this public should have already been with their complete vaccination schedule and the Ministry is warning of the risks of low vaccination coverage.

Recommended vaccination data for children at or below the age of one year , according to data from the National Immunization Program (PNI), indicate that 760,000 children have not yet been vaccinated with BCG, 950,000 with hepatitis B, 470,000 children have not yet been vaccinated with pneumococcal and rotavirus. for this group, 240,000 children were not immunized with the C meningitis vaccine. Penta and poliomyelitis also have large numbers of children without vaccination, 320,000 children not vaccinated for penta and 790 children not vaccinated for polio . Among the recommended ones for children of one year are the triple vaccines, with 150 thousand children still to be vaccinated, pneumococcal, with 470 thousand children to be vaccinated and meningitis C with 180 thousand cr not yet vaccinated. Already, for the group of vaccines recommended for children aged 15 months? hepatitis A, DTP, Polio and triple viral / Tetra? are 840,000 children without hepatitis A vaccine, 1.1 million for DTP, 800,000 for Polio and 707,000 children without a triple vaccine.

The situation is most critical in vaccines for adolescents. In meningococcal C, for example, 5.9 million adolescents of both sexes in the 12 and 13 years age group have not yet been vaccinated. The same occurs in the HPV vaccine. 73.6% of girls aged 9 to 15 years were vaccinated with the first dose and only 47% with two doses. Among boys, 23.6% of male adolescents were vaccinated at 12 and 13 years of age. Another vaccine for low-coverage adolescents is for hepatitis B, in 2016, 1.3 million young people were not vaccinated.

Also the yellow fever vaccine, which has had a recent outbreak completed by the Ministry of Health, has about a of 2.4 million people vaccinated under the age of 14.


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