Since the children were born up to the age of 14 exists a vaccination schedule that parents should follow. A calendar that collects a lot Compulsory paid vaccinations.
But the Andalusian public health In recent years, nearly all paid vaccines have been incorporated. That better coverage in front of a large group of serious illness.
Among those that have been included are: the vaccine against to pneumococcus and the vaccine Nimenrix, which protects against meningococcal ACWY. And from December 2021 the families of the children 2, 4 and 15 months from No they must pay for the meningitis vaccine B (Baxer).
In addition to the health benefit, the introduction of the latter vaccines in the free program allows families to save more than a thousand euros per child in vaccines.
What vaccines do children receive?
With the incorporation of all these vaccines, Andalusian children and adolescents receive a total of 11 shots from birth to 14 years. A vaccination to prevent tetanusdiphtheria, pertussis, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenza b, pneumococcus, meningococcus B, meningococcus ACWY, measles rubellamumps, chickenpox, papilloma virus and flu.
In Andalusia the only vaccine left to pay is rotaviruswhich prevents severe diarrhea, especially in early childhood.
Flu protection
On the other hand, it was also included children from 6 months to 5 years as part of the flu vaccination campaign.
This group is consider the risk group In addition to being the most contagious and the one that transmits the virus the most together with the elderly.
Boys are also vaccinated against papilloma
The vaccine for years papilloma virus (VHP) It was only for girls under 12. Up to this age, vaccination is free and begins to be paid once this age is over. A vaccine that has three doses and that’s it That’s about 400 euros.
This vaccine pursue avoid serious diseases such as cervical cancer.
The recent approval of Vaccine against papillomavirus for children who turn 12 years old in 2023 it is expected to be applied to the male population be on par with the female group in preventing the virus and reducing transmission.
Recipients of this papillomavirus vaccine there will be more than 8,000 children from Malaga and about 47,000 Andalusians born in 2011.
The most frequent diseases linked to the spread of HPV are precancerous genital lesions (cervical and vaginal), precancerous anal lesionscervical cancer and anal cancer and genital warts.
