The upcoming year 2023 will bring changes in many sectors of society and one of them will be the healthcare sector. Focusing on prevention, the vaccines they are some of the most powerful weapons to prepare the body against different pathogens, so it is convenient to know about them in advance new calendar of administration of these prophylaxis in order not to miss any dose.
So, Andavavac (project of the Strategic Vaccination Plan of Ministry of Health and Families from Andalusia) made public the new updates regarding vaccines by 14 infectious diseases. With this arrangement, new technical-scientific evidence is introduced both in relation to the infections themselves and to the biotechnology of vaccines and are confronted with “the epidemiological changes of vaccine-preventable diseases.
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The calendar will enter effective from January 1st and it is summarized as follows:
Change the dose of TPPA (Tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis low-load or adult-type vaccine) 6 years of age from DTaP-IPV vaccine (Tetraxim®) in the cohort of born in 2017as of January 2023. Cohorts born before 2017 who did not receive this 6-year dose of Tdpa will receive one dose of Tdpa (boostrix®).
The rescue program with MenACWY (Vaccine conjugate against meningococcal serogroups A, C, W and Y) (Nimenrix®) in adolescents and young adults, extended for another yearso that in 2023 it covers all unvaccinated persons aged 13-21 (born between 2002 and 2010), and incorporates the Cohort of 12 years (born in 2011) to this vaccination.
From now on, 12-year-old children (starting from those born in 2011) will have a systematic vaccination of Gardasil 9® from which to protect yourself human papilloma virus. In this sense, the protection against these pathogens separates its two doses in time: from 0 to 6 months it is now between 0 and 12 months. What is sought is greater immunogenicity.
On the other hand, it encourages routine flu vaccination covering all children aged between 6 and 59 months.
Finally, vaccination coverage against pneumococcus in adulthood widens the age range. Now all those people born between 1951 and 1963 who have not received a previous dose are recipients of the vaccine.
[Puedes consultar el calendario completo en este enlace]
In addition to these stand-out themes, the calendar for 2023 includes information related to protection against invasive diseases by Haemophilus influenzae type b, complaint, hepatitis B, mumps, polio, rubella, measles yes chicken pox.
