Children’s vaccination coverage for eleven compulsory vaccines increased in 2021 but not at the expected levels.
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France, champion of vaccination distrust? Despite this reputation maintained by the chaotic beginnings of the COVVI-19 vaccination campaign, parents continue to protect their infants from infectious diseases. According to public health figures France (SPF), vaccination coverage has even increased for eleven compulsory vaccines, but with various effects: + 3.8 points for the first dose of the Méningococcus C vaccine, gone from 84.9 % at 88.7 % between 2019 and 2021, but only + 0.6 point for the third dose of the hexavalent vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, darling, haemophilus influenzae B and hepatitis B (past From 90.3 % to 90.9 % between 2018 and 2020), while previous years recorded an increase of 6.4 points.
Furthermore, “even if the vaccination coverage against measles at the age of 2 is regularly increasing, it does not yet reach the 95 % necessary for its elimination” in France, specifies SPF in its report of April 28 .
Demainable results, therefore, but which decide with data from the United States pointing to a general drop in vaccination coverage of American children. “Despite the drop in health care remedies due to the COVVI-19 epidemic, this upward French trend is probably related to the vaccination obligation of eleven vaccines established in 2018”, advances Anke Bourgeois, doctor in the Service of infectious and tropical diseases of the Montpellier CHU.
Extension of vaccine skills
Despite everything, information work remains to be done. “Most people do not know that reminders are necessary in adulthood,” recalls Anke Bourgeois, especially for diphtheria, tetanus and polio at 25 and 45. “This is why it is necessary to plead for vaccine consultations in itself, and not only in addition to consultations for a disease”, argues the doctor. since April 23 , L ‘Extension of vaccination skills for pharmacists, nurses and midwives concerning the over 16s will make it possible to multiply the contact points and thus simplify the vaccination course of patients.
Health professionals also alert to the delay taken by vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV), which is not compulsory but recommended since 2007 in young girls from 11 to 14 years old (vaccine catching up possible until 19 years) and since January 1, 2021 among young boys, in prevention of cancers of the cervix, ENT, anus, vulva, vagina and penis.
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