The Ministry of Health (MS) will promote a multi-vaccination campaign in collaboration with the States to combat the risk of reintroduction of diseases already eliminated by vaccination. Polio, for example, currently has 38.8% of the target audience vaccinated.

The initiative begins next week, in Amapá, and will continue throughout the second semester with different schedules in each region of the country.

See below the period of the multivaccination campaign in each state:

• Amapa – from July 15 to 30
• Roraima – from August 12 to 26
• Maranhão – from August 12 to 26
• For – from August 12 to 26
• Rio de Janeiro – from August 26 to September 9
• Holy Spirit – from August 26 to September 9
• Federal District – from August 26 to September 9
• Sao Paulo – from September 30 to November 14
• Mato Grosso – from September 9 to 23
• Southern Mato Grosso – from September 9 to 23
• Rondonia – from September 9 to 23
• Parana – from October 14 to 28
• Saint Catherine – from October 14 to 28
• Rio Grande do Sul – from October 14 to 28
• Alagoas – from September 23 to October 7
• Piauí – from September 23 to October 7
• Ceara – from September 23 to October 7
• Paraíba – from September 23 to October 7
• Goias – from September 30 to November 14
• Tocantins – from September 30 to November 14
• Bahia – from October 7 to 21
• Pernambuco – from October 7 to 21
• Sergipe – from October 7 to 21
• Minas Gerais – from October 21 to November 4

To make the campaign successful, the ministry will conduct pre-training and analysis of local data to guide efforts. The vaccination strategy will be adapted according to the population, the health structure, the socio-economic and geographical reality.

Among the actions that can be adopted:

• Vaccination in schools,
• Active search for unvaccinated people,
• Vaccination during any contact with a health service,
• extramural vaccination,
• check the vaccination record,
• and intensification of vaccination in indigenous areas.

“We are going to propose to municipalities a different plan, where the vaccination leaves the health office and goes to the person who needs to be vaccinated. There will also be a transfer of resources to the states and municipalities, an exceptional resource for vaccination actions, which the Ministry of Health has not done for years,” explained the director of the National Program Department. of Vaccination (DPNI) of the ministry. of Health, Eder Gatti.