Quinvaxem vaccine (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A number of new
vaccines will be used in the expanded national vaccination programme (NEVP),
the (MoH) announced on March 27.
Vietnam has successfully produced rubella
vaccine with the support of the Japanese Government. In March 2018, it was used
in the NEVP in four provinces and showed the same result with the vaccine used
during 2014-2016. Thus, the made-in vaccine will be used across the
country for children of 18 months old and above in the NEVP.
To maintain achievement in polio eradication,
inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) for children of five months old will be used in
the NEVP, starting August 2018, said the MoH.
Quinvaxem vaccine (a combination vaccine for
diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and hepatitis B for children under one year
old), which was used in the NEVP for more than seven years, will be used
nationwide until the end of May. A similar vaccine will be used in four provinces
before being widely utilised nationwide from the end of the second quarter of
2018.
The MoH and relevant agencies are working on anti-measles
vaccination for children from six months old in late 2018.
It also said women in the child-bearing age
should get rubella vaccine to protect themselves as well as their children.
Families were advised to have their children fully vaccinated to prevent the
diseases.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
