Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 31, 2022, p. 17
To face the fall in the coverage of regular vaccination schemes, which fell to a great extent due to the covid-19 pandemic, the federal Ministry of Health will undertake three campaigns to apply these doses in different population groups.
In the first place, the Undersecretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, reported yesterday at the presidential conference that a coverage recovery campaign will be carried out for the hexavalent vaccine, which covers three doses.
From September 5 to the end of the year, 2.1 million one-year-old children will receive this dose, which protects against polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, pneumonia, meningitis and the hepatitis B virus.
We are going to recover it up to 95 percent, which is the minimum ideal rate that we should be working with continuously.
, exposed López-Gatell. The first phase will be intensive
from September 5 to 30; the monitoring stage will be from October 1 to November 21 and will end with the application of a third dose by the end of 2021.
Before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the undersecretary said that the covid-19 pandemic brought with it in Mexico and throughout the world a reduction in access to vaccines
a situation that has been confirmed by the World and Pan American Health Organizations and the United Nations Children’s Fund.
Data recently published by the National Health Survey indicates that in 2021 only 27.5 percent of one-year-old children and 31.1 percent of two-year-olds completed the six key vaccines of the national schedule.
A second campaign will be to apply the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), associated with cervical cancer in women and other cancers in women and men.
Although regularly, López-Gatell explained, it is aimed at girls between the ages of nine and 10, due to the global decrease in the production of these biologicals, this time it will be applied to adolescents between the ages of 13 and 14, as well as cis women and transgender from 11 to 39 years old living with HIV, to reach a coverage of 2.5 million people. It will start on November 21 and close on December 31 this year.
In addition, the annual campaign against seasonal influenza will be carried out, with the goal of 33.6 million children from six to 59 months, people from 60 and over, from five to 59 years with comorbidities, health personnel and pregnant women throughout the country. country. It will start on October 3 and end on March 31, 2023.
As for covid-19, he indicated that it is already seven consecutive weeks down. He added that from September 12 to 30, 10.2 million doses of Pfizer will arrive, as part of the Covax mechanism, which will be applied to children from five to 11 years old.
