The Spanish Association of Pediatrics has announced the new vaccine calendar 2009 in which, based on evidence, reports on vaccination recommendations for children and adolescents.
This is a table with vaccination guidelines that each autonomous community then applies to its own vaccination calendar. In Spain there are no less than 19 different vaccination schedules, one for each community plus Ceuta and Melilla, which establishes a difference in criteria regarding the age at which vaccines should be applied and that some communities include vaccines that others do not.
Let's see what's new in this year's vaccination calendar compared to last year.
Only in Madrid, Navarra, Ceuta and Melilla does it apply chickenpox vaccine In the second year of life, the rest vaccinates between 10 and 14 years only to susceptible children. This year, the Vaccine Advisory Committee (CAV) recommends universal vaccination of healthy children with a first dose between 12-15 months and a second dose at 3-4 years (at the beginning of schooling). From that age, vaccination of susceptible children and adolescents.
With respect to vaccines against influenza and hepatitis A, which should be applied to children at risk, the Committee considers that vaccines should be implemented when pediatricians consider it appropriate, beyond risk groups, as the first step for a future universal recommendation.
Recommend vaccinate against the flu a 1) children with chronic pneumopathies, including asthma, severe cardiovascular diseases, chronic neuropathies, diabetes and other metabolic diseases, neuromuscular diseases that condition respiratory disease, diseases or practices that condition immunodeficiency, and children who receive continuous treatment with acetylsalicylic acid. 2) Healthy children older than 6 months who may constitute a risk for sick adults who live with them and should not or cannot be vaccinated. 3) Adults that may constitute a risk for children living with them.
On hepatitis A vaccine 2 separate doses for 6-12 months from 12 months of age are recommended for traveling or at-risk children.
Recall the recommendation he gave last year on implementing the rotavirus and human papillomavirus vaccine, vaccines that are not currently funded by the autonomous communities.
This is the table of recommendations for 2009:
