Ministry of Health (Minsa) Achieves 87% HPV Vaccination Coverage for Fifth Graders in Peru – National Plan for 2024

Ministry of Health (Minsa) Achieves 87% HPV Vaccination Coverage for Fifth Graders in Peru – National Plan for 2024

In 2023, the Ministry of Health (Minsa) applied 688,489 doses against the human papillomavirus (HPV) to girls and boys in the fifth grade of primary school and from 9 to 13 years of age throughout the country, the sector’s portfolio reported. . He added that, in this way, it was possible to protect 87% of … Read more

Asturias Ministry of Health Extends Vaccination Campaign to Combat Respiratory Infections

Asturias Ministry of Health Extends Vaccination Campaign to Combat Respiratory Infections

Achieve vaccination coverage equal to or greater than 75% in people aged 65 and older. That was the objective from which the Ministry of Health started when, on October 2, it began its vaccination campaign against covid and flu. Today, in that age group, the coverage level is 63.2%. A percentage that is still far … Read more

COVID-19 Vaccine Shortage in Cochabamba: 45 Thousand Doses Expired

COVID-19 Vaccine Shortage in Cochabamba: 45 Thousand Doses Expired

Are you interested in an anti-covid vaccine? Well, it will be impossible to acquire it, at least for now. This is because no health center in Cochabamba or authorized point of sale has had immunization doses since October, reported the head of Epidemiology of the Departmental Health Service (SEDES), Rubén Castillo. The current shortage of … Read more

Cochabamba COVID Vaccine Shortage: Impact and Updates from Departmental Health Service

Cochabamba COVID Vaccine Shortage: Impact and Updates from Departmental Health Service

Are you interested in an anti-covid vaccine? Well, it will be impossible to acquire it, at least for now. This is because no health center in Cochabamba or authorized point of sale has had immunization doses since October, reported the head of Epidemiology of the Departmental Health Service (SEDES), Rubén Castillo. The current shortage of … Read more

2023-2024 Flu and Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign in Andalusia

2023-2024 Flu and Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign in Andalusia

The Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs of the Government of Andalusia began the first phase of the 2023-2024 vaccination campaign against flu and Covid-19 on October 9 and, a month later, 112,000 doses of the vaccine have been reached. flu and 83,475 to deal with Covid in the province of Cádiz. In total, one … Read more

Diris South Lima administers second booster of bivalent vaccine to 200+ individuals at Maria Rosario Araoz municipal shelter

Diris South Lima administers second booster of bivalent vaccine to 200+ individuals at Maria Rosario Araoz municipal shelter

Health personnel from the Directorate of Integrated Health Networks (Diris) South Lima went to the María Rosario Araoz municipal shelter, located in San Juan de Miraflores, to apply the second booster of the bivalent vaccine against covid-19 to more than 200 people reported the Ministry of Health (Minsa). According to the Immunization Directorate of the … Read more

Flu Campaign: Vaccination Strategy and Purchase Details for 2022 Season

Flu Campaign: Vaccination Strategy and Purchase Details for 2022 Season

The forecast is that the flu campaign will also begin this year in October so that the population is vaccinated in the months in which the peak of flu infections reaches its peak, usually in the months of December and January. . For this, the Ministry of Health has already acquired the necessary doses. In … Read more

COVID and Flu Vaccines: Fifth Dose and Joint Administration for Target Groups in Andalusia

COVID and Flu Vaccines: Fifth Dose and Joint Administration for Target Groups in Andalusia

The fifth dose of the covid vaccine will be administered from October together with that of the flu to protect the target groups from both infections, after 60% coverage of these groups was reached in 2022, when it should have reached “the 80-85%». The Public Health Commission recommends them to people over 60 years of … Read more

Reinforcing Covid Vaccination: Minister of Health Prioritizes Age and Vulnerable Groups

Reinforcing Covid Vaccination: Minister of Health Prioritizes Age and Vulnerable Groups

The Minister of Health, Catalina García, is committed to inoculating, along with the flu, those over 60 years of age and the rest of the most vulnerable groups The fifth dose of the Covid vaccine is recommended for those over 60 years of age VALERIO MERINO The Junta de Andalucía begins to set the criteria … Read more