Vaccines make up, along with hand hygiene and other preventive behaviors, the main protective measures against different transmitted diseases.
They are, therefore, one of the main tools in the field of both individual and community health, to prevent communicable diseases, which generally have a wide incidence among different population groups.
The Junta de Castilla y León has approved this Thursday, in its Governing Council, the contracting of thirteen types of vaccine for use in the official calendar of systematic vaccinations throughout life in the Community, budgeted at 9,034,589 euros, for a total of 229,900 doses.
Vaccine Supply
The breakdown of this vaccine supply is as follows: 50,000 hexavalent vaccines against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated poliomyelitis, and haemophilus influenzae type B conjugate; 500 doses against Haemophilus influenzae type B conjugate; 17,000 diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis units, reduced antigen content (dTpa); 600 vaccines against hepatitis B for children; another 8,000 against hepatitis B in adulthood; 1,300 units against hepatitis A in children; 6,500 injectables against hepatitis A for adults; 18,000 doses of the vaccine against measles, rubella and mumps; 25,000 against chickenpox; 23,500 vaccine units against measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox; 13,500 conjugate vaccines against meningococcus C; 53,000 nine-valent doses against human papillomavirus; and 13,000 units of the rotavirus vaccine.
Calendar changes
Precisely, these last two types of vaccination respond to some of the modifications already in force, since the beginning of the year, in the official calendar of systematic vaccinations throughout life in Castilla y León: the extension to twelve-year-old boys of the HPV vaccine; and the incorporation of immunization against rotavirus in newborns.
Other changes that make the Castilian and Leonese calendar the most complete among the Spanish Autonomous Communities are the vaccination of 65-year-olds against herpes zoster; flu vaccine available for children ages six to 59 months; the modification of the temporary schedule in the primary vaccination against meningitis B; in the pneumococcal vaccine in people over 65; and the replacement of the dTpa vaccine by the DTaP-VPI (diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, haemophilus influenzae, hepatitis B and poliomyelitis) vaccine with a high antigenic load, in the six-year booster schedule.
For the present 2023, the General Directorate of Public Health has increased the amount consigned to meet the needs of the official calendar of systematic vaccinations throughout life in Castilla y León to 34.2 million euros, taking into account the news in the same already in force, which means 9% more than the budget of the previous year.
Vaccines make up, along with hand hygiene and other preventive behaviors, the main protective measures against different transmitted diseases.
They are, therefore, one of the main tools in the field of both individual and community health, to prevent communicable diseases, which generally have a wide incidence among different population groups.
The Junta de Castilla y León has approved this Thursday, in its Governing Council, the contracting of thirteen types of vaccine for use in the official calendar of systematic vaccinations throughout life in the Community, budgeted at 9,034,589 euros, for a total of 229,900 doses.
Vaccine Supply
The breakdown of this vaccine supply is as follows: 50,000 hexavalent vaccines against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated poliomyelitis, and haemophilus influenzae type B conjugate; 500 doses against Haemophilus influenzae type B conjugate; 17,000 diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis units, reduced antigen content (dTpa); 600 vaccines against hepatitis B for children; another 8,000 against hepatitis B in adulthood; 1,300 units against hepatitis A in children; 6,500 injectables against hepatitis A for adults; 18,000 doses of the vaccine against measles, rubella and mumps; 25,000 against chickenpox; 23,500 vaccine units against measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox; 13,500 conjugate vaccines against meningococcus C; 53,000 nine-valent doses against human papillomavirus; and 13,000 units of the rotavirus vaccine.
Calendar changes
Precisely, these last two types of vaccination respond to some of the modifications already in force, since the beginning of the year, in the official calendar of systematic vaccinations throughout life in Castilla y León: the extension to twelve-year-old boys of the HPV vaccine; and the incorporation of immunization against rotavirus in newborns.
Other changes that make the Castilian and Leonese calendar the most complete among the Spanish Autonomous Communities are the vaccination of 65-year-olds against herpes zoster; flu vaccine available for children ages six to 59 months; the modification of the temporary schedule in the primary vaccination against meningitis B; in the pneumococcal vaccine in people over 65; and the replacement of the dTpa vaccine by the DTaP-VPI (diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, haemophilus influenzae, hepatitis B and poliomyelitis) vaccine with a high antigenic load, in the six-year booster schedule.
For the present 2023, the General Directorate of Public Health has increased the amount consigned to meet the needs of the official calendar of systematic vaccinations throughout life in Castilla y León to 34.2 million euros, taking into account the news in the same already in force, which means 9% more than the budget of the previous year.
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