Today (20) is D-Day of the National Vaccination Campaign against Poliomyelitis and Multivaccination of 2022. Immunization against poliomyelitis is intended for children under 5 years of age. The target audience of multivaccination, for updating routine vaccines, are those under 15 years of age.
The Ministry of Health highlights the need to obtain high vaccination coverage so that eradicated diseases, such as polio, do not re-register in the country. Worldwide, coverage has plummeted during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Updating the vaccination status increases protection against vaccine-preventable diseases, preventing outbreaks and hospitalizations, sequelae, rehabilitation treatments and deaths. National mobilization is a strategy adopted by the Ministry of Health and has been successfully carried out since 1980”.
The campaign was opened on August 8 and runs until September 9 throughout Brazil, involving the application of doses of the 18 vaccines that make up the National Vaccination Calendar for children and adolescents.
The national mobilization will be this Saturday, but states and municipalities have the autonomy to define additional dates. The objective is to achieve vaccination coverage equal to or greater than 95% for the polio vaccine in the age group from 1 year to under 5 years, in addition to reducing the number of unvaccinated among children and adolescents under 15 years of age.
Vaccines available are: Hepatitis A and B, Penta (DTP/Hib/Hep B), Pneumococcal 10 valent, VIP (Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine), HRV (Human Rotavirus Vaccine), Meningococcal C (conjugate), OPV (Oral Polio Vaccine) , Yellow fever, MMR (measles, rubella and mumps), Tetraviral (measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox), DTP (triple bacterial), Chickenpox and quadrivalent HPV (human papillomavirus).
The HPV, dT (double adult), Yellow Fever, MMR, Hepatitis B, dTpa and Meningococcal ACWY (conjugated) vaccines will be available for adolescents.
Immunization against covid-19 is also in progress and vaccines can be administered simultaneously with the others on the National Calendar, in the population from three years of age. There is also no need to wait for a minimum interval between the covid-19 vaccine and others in the campaign.
Polio
For the campaign against poliomyelitis, the target audience is children under five years of age, totaling more than 14.3 million people, and children under 1 year of age must be vaccinated according to the vaccination status found for the scheme. basic.
Children aged 1 to 4 years should be vaccinated indiscriminately with the Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccine (OPV), provided that they have already received the three doses of Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine (VIP) in the basic regimen.
All immunizers that are part of the National Immunization Program are safe and are registered by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).
