Women between the ages of 19 and 45 will be able to purchase the HPV vaccine through prescriptions from their family doctor, with a 50% discount
From December 1, 2023, several vaccines intended for adults are available in Romania, compensated up to 100% by the National Health Insurance House. The new vaccines are generally intended for at-risk categories that were previously uncompensated. In general, the beneficiaries are patients with certain conditions, pregnant women, but also women up to 45 years of age, as is the case of the HPV vaccine, compensated at a rate of 50% for them.
Adults benefit from compensated vaccines
“We are witnessing a completion of the national vaccination program. A very important concept of the World Health Organization is being implemented, namely lifelong vaccination.
Vaccination is not only for children, neither is prevention, we also need prevention for adults, we need vaccines that are intended for certain risk groups and for adults. At this moment, the change in the legal framework favors that adults who need a vaccine can benefit from those vaccines on the list of compensated drugs. It is about vaccines that already existed in the vaccination scheme for children, which can also be used in adults, but the vast majority are vaccines aimed at adults”, said doctor Gindrovel Dumitra, coordinator of the National Vaccinology Group within the Medical Society of Family
The varicella vaccine, a novelty in the vaccination program
Some of the compensated vaccines for adults were part of the National Vaccination Program until now, but exclusively for children. Now, there are also vaccines that have a composition adapted for adults. An example is the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, which is administered to children from two months, six months, etc. It will be available in a version adapted for the adult patient.
“Other vaccines, such as the one for measles, rubella, mumps, are exactly like those used to vaccinate children,” states Dr. Dumitra.
And others are new vaccines.
The varicella vaccine is an example. It is included in the National Vaccination Program for people who are in a delicate situation, post bone marrow transplant.
“When a disease is not eradicated and vaccination coverage decreases, it is the first step for the reappearance of serious diseases”
“The old vaccination program, as we see, led to the eradication of some diseases. It’s smallpox. It has led to the elimination of some diseases at the moment in Europe, such as polio, and we are now in a position where we can say that, through vaccination, we are controlling certain diseases, such as diphtheria. Although we have recent news that shows us that, after a long period, from 1989 onwards, in which we talked about controlling the disease, now there are two cases of cutaneous diphtheria. Which greatly strengthens our message. When a disease is not eradicated and the vaccination coverage decreases, it is only the first step for the reappearance of serious diseases that we have sometimes forgotten”, says Dr. Gindrovel Dumitra.
The doctor says that Romania is in a European trend. “The Covid pandemic brought to the fore not only beneficial information, but also anti-vaccineists”.
List of compensated vaccines in adults and compensation percentage of each vaccine:
pneumococcal vaccine – 100% compensated
meningococcal vaccine – 100% compensated
HPV vaccine – 100% reimbursed for girls and boys aged 11-19 and 50% for women up to 45
acellular diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine for adults (dTPa) – 100% compensated
hepatitis B vaccine (HBV) – 100% compensated
measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine – 100% compensated
varicella vaccine – compensated 100%.
Vaccines for adults are reimbursed for people in at-risk groups, with certain conditions or post-transplantation.
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2024-01-03 03:21:00
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