With vaccination coverage below 70%, Pernambuco, on Monday (8), started nationwide campaigns against Polio and Multiple Immunization Handbook Update for Children Under 15 Years.
In Pernambuco, the scenario of coverage of key vaccines found in the routine calendar of health functions remains a concern.
they are Much less than the target Vaccines against poliomyelitis (55.97%), trio virus (64.02% in the first dose and 37.30% in the second dose), Hepatitis A and B (52.08% and 59.05%) and rota (55.26%). The Ministry of Health recommends that they be reached Coverage at least 90%In order to protect against diseases that can be prevented by vaccination.
More than 2,400 vaccination rooms in the state will be filled, from tomorrow until September 9, to receive mothers, fathers and guardians of children and adolescents to update the vaccination status. a Victory Day for national mobilization is scheduled for August 20.
The National Immunization Program (PNI-PE) has already sent about two million doses of vaccines to the municipalities of Pernambuco to carry out both campaigns.
in Pernambuco, 667,338 children up to 4 years old are eligible to receive the polio vaccine. For the disease, vaccination is carried out randomly in the age group from 1 to 4 years.
In a multiple pollination strategy, the target population is Children and adolescents under 15 years of age who have not been vaccinated or who have incomplete vaccination schedules.
Vaccination coverage in recent years for poliomyelitis Health directors worried. When considering children under the age of one year, Pernambuco experienced a significant decline in these indicators. Since 2019, immunization coverage has been below 95%, the target recommended by the Ministry of Health (MS), at 85.6%. In subsequent years, this indicator continued to decline: 71.7% in 2020 and 67% in 2021.
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“There are currently two countries affected by it poliomyelitis: Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since November 2021, two cases of wild poliovirus (PVS) have been identified, one in Malawi and one in Mozambique, areas that until then had been considered free of virus spread, showing that we should not let our guard down. when that happens. Come for vaccination. All countries are at risk of re-emerging diseases, as is the case for measles in Brazil, says Anna Catarina de Mello, the state’s superintendent of vaccinations.
She notes that Brazil has not detected cases of polio since 1990. In 1994, the country received certification from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) as a wild poliovirus (PVS) free zone.
“Strategies such as running immunization rooms at alternate times and even on weekends, as well as mobile immunization points in places with large numbers of people, are most welcome to generate the means for the population to access immunization equipment. We are distributing vaccine doses and syringes so that they can Municipal managers from starting their business, and Pernambuco can improve coverage rates, in order to protect an important part of our population, composed of girls and boys under 15 years old”, reinforces the Minister of State for Health, André Longo.
The state superintendent of vaccinations, Anna Catarina de Mello, stresses that the vaccines in the national calendar can be administered simultaneously or with any time period, after the application of the vaccine against Covid-19, in populations from the age of 3 years. the age.
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