Starting in 2024, the COVID-19 vaccine will be an integral part of Brazil’s National Immunization Program (PNI). This resolution aligns with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) advice to administer an annual dose of vaccine.
“During the pandemic, a separate program was created to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine outdoors from our national program. This year, we are integrating this vaccine into the national immunization program,” explained Ethel Maciel, Secretary of Health and Environmental Surveillance of the Ministry of Health.
The Department of Health advises states and municipalities to prioritize express groups, adding children over 6 months to less than five years old, others at higher risk for severe illness, such as the elderly and immunocompromised, pregnant and postpartum women, health care professionals, other people with serious illnesses. comorbidities, indigenous communities, riverine and quilombola populations, citizens and long-term care workers, people with permanent disabilities, incarcerated people, adolescents and young people receiving socio-educational measures, criminal formula workers and other homeless people. friends.
“In Brazil, we expanded the organization compared to the WHO recommendations, which are more limited. In the 2024 campaign we will have the same teams as in 2023,” Maciel said.
The vaccination strategy in 2024 will continue to prioritize those groups, and if there is a surplus of vaccines, they will be expanded to other segments, such as through the Ministry of Health. ” Our main goal now, both globally and in Brazil, is to decrease the severity, hospitalizations and mortality similar to the disease,” Maciel added.
The Ministry of Health also commissioned a national population study, with around 33,000 participants, focused on long COVID. “We are concerned about the lack of foreign or domestic estimates to scale up public policies. “The study, coordinated by Pedro Hallal, a researcher at the Federal University of Pelotas, visits people’s homes to collect data on how many times they’ve had COVID, whether they’ve had symptoms, and whether those symptoms persist. The fieldwork begins at the end of November and we hope to have information through the end of the year to consult our long-term strategy against COVID in 2024,” said Secretary Maciel.
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