Vietnam has just been provided of inactivated poliovirus vaccines by global Vaccine Alliance GAVI in the national open vaccination program...
Vietnam has just been provided of inactivated poliovirus vaccines by global Vaccine Alliance GAVI in the national open vaccination program. Together with other cities and provinces nationwide, Khanh Hoa Province will include the vaccine in the open vaccination program scheduled to take place in October 2018.
Huynh Trong Tan, Secretary of Khanh Hoa open vaccination program says Vietnam in general and Khanh Hoa Province in particular have been reported with polio eradication since 2000. However, polio has not been completely eradicated globally.
Under the World Health Organization (WHO) strategy, the Ministry of Health has approved a plan on protecting polio eradication efforts in Vietnam, period 2016-2020, with the use of the oral vaccine (bOPV) to prevent 2 types of polio viruses type 1, 3 in the open vaccination program; and especially newly-developed inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in 2018.
Sponsored by GAVI, Vietnam has been provided more than 2 million doses of IPV with the trade name of IMOVAX POLIO produced by Sanofi, France. The vaccine has been licensed for circulation in Vietnam. This is the first time the vaccine has been added to the open vaccination program in Vietnam.
Children from 5 months old are recommended to be given 1 dose of IPV in the open vaccination program. The vaccine will be used widely in Khanh Hoa this October with nearly 6,300 five-month-olds in Khanh Hoa expected be given the dose of vaccine in 2018. The program has set a target of at least 95% of children in the recommended groups under vaccination coverage.
The project on the national vaccination provided sufficient IPV vaccines for Khanh Hoa Province in September. The Center for Preventive Health Care has received the vaccines which will be allocated and managed to ensure the availability of an adequate supply of the vaccines and vaccination equipment 10 days before vaccination days in communes.
In addition, the center has coordinated with districts and towns to organize training courses on vaccine storage, safe injection, injection dose, route, site, screening, pre-vaccination counseling for parents; tips to monitor immune reaction to vaccination, etc to ensure all vaccination providers are well informed of safe immunization knowledge and practice.
Thao Ly
Translated by N.T
