Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 7:19 PM
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THE HAGUE –
For the first time in five years, the number of children receiving vaccinations for infectious diseases has increased slightly. RIVM comes to this conclusion in the report Vaccination rate and annual report of the National Vaccination Program for the Netherlands 2019. The vaccination rate in The Hague has also improved, but is still below national average.
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In the National Vaccination Plan, children are vaccinated against twelve contagious diseases. Parents are not obliged to have their children vaccinated. The vaccination rate for mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) in infants rose from 92.9 to 93.6 percent nationwide. The World Health Organization WHO applies a lower limit of 95 percent to eradicate these types of diseases. In The Hague, that degree has increased from 87.9 percent to 88.7 percent.
In addition, the number of vaccinations of adolescent girls against HPV (a virus that causes cervical cancer) rose sharply, 7.5 percent compared to last year. This trend is also visible in The Hague. The number of girls from The Hague who were vaccinated against HPV rose by 0.7 percent.
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Parents who doubt the usefulness and necessity of vaccination
In the report, RIVM writes that the increased media attention for vaccination and the initiatives to increase the vaccination coverage seem to be bearing fruit. More and more parents are doubting the usefulness and necessity of vaccination. In The Hague this also contributed to a decrease in the vaccination coverage.
The municipality of The Hague with a number of measures, such as longer opening hours of consultation agencies, mobile vaccination teams, an information campaign and staff who know better how to try to increase the vaccination rate in the city with doubting parents.
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