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01.07.2016
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Booster doses were changed to childhood vaccines against meningitis and pneumonia, in addition to the vaccine schedule of polio. Also it is no longer necessary third HPV vaccine dose
Health posts around the country are already new vaccination schedule for 2016 are being changed boosters for childhood vaccines against meningitis and pneumonia, in addition to the vaccination schedule and the number of poliomyelitis and doses of the HPV vaccine, which not the third dose is most needed. The changes, made by the Ministry of Health, began to assert from this Monday (04).
"These changes are routine. The National Vaccination Calendar has periodic changes according to different contexts. Whenever we have a change in the epidemiological situation, changes in indications of vaccines or incorporation of new vaccines, make changes to the calendar, "said Secretary of Health Surveillance, Antonio Nardi.
One is the principias changes in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The vaccination schedule goes into two doses, and the girl should receive the second six months after the first, no longer required the administration of the third dose. Recent studies show that the scheme with two doses provides an antibody response in healthy girls aged 9 to 14 years of not less when compared with the immune response of women aged 15 to 25 years old who received three doses. Women living with HIV between 9-26 years should continue to receive the three-dose schedule.
For babies, the main difference will be the reduction of a dose in pneumococcal vaccine 10 brave to pneumonia, which from now on will be applied in two doses, at 2 and 4 months, followed by booster preferably at 12 months, but may be taken until 4 years. This recommendation was also made because of studies showing that the two most a booster dose schedule has the same effectiveness of the scheme three plus one booster doses.
POLIO - The third dose of polio vaccine, given at six months, no longer oral and becomes injectable. Change is a new stage for the exclusive use of the inactivated vaccine (injectable) in preventing polio, given the proximity of the global eradication of the disease. In Brazil, the last case was in 1989.
From now on, the child receives the first three the doses - at two, four and six months of life - with polio inactivated vaccine (IPV), the injectable form. Already the oral polio vaccine (OPV) is still given as a booster at 15 months, four years and annually during the national campaign for children aged one to four years.
There will also be changing the meningococcal C vaccine (combined), which protects children against meningitis caused by meningococcal C. The building, which was formerly applied to 15 months, is now applied to 12 months, preferably, it can be made up to 4 years . The first doses of meningococcal continue to be held at 3 and 5 months.
Vaccines - Today, the National Immunization Program (NIP) distributes about 300 million immunobiologicals annually from vaccines and serums, and offer the people all vaccines recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the National Vaccination Calendar.
Importantly, over the past five years, the budget PNI grew more than 140%, from R $ 1.2 billion in 2010 to R $ 2.9 billion in 2015. In addition, the Ministry of contracts Health with laboratories producing vaccines are in progress and payments on time.
Source: Ministry of Health
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