Belo Horizonte City Hall announced that the vaccination against hepatitis a In the capital of Minas Gerais was expanded from this Tuesday (22). The city has already registered, In the first quarter of this year, 73 cases of hepatitis A. throughout 2023, there were eight cases, and in 2024 there were 176.
Following the recommendation of the Ministry of Health, the city announced that users of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PREP) and people who have had positive cases for the disease will be immunized from today.
The application of the vaccine will be made in specific units, which will make available the 3,000 doses received, according to the public. According to the Municipal Health Secretariat, the vaccination scheme is composed of one or two doses, depending on the condition and vaccination of the person.
The hepatitis vaccine is part of the children’s calendar and can be used from 12 months to 4 years, 11 months and 29 days.
The vaccine is also available at the Reference Center for Special Immunobiologicals (CRIE) for people over 1 year of age: chronic hepatopathies; coagulopathies; people living with HIV; immunosuppressed; deposit diseases; cystic fibrosis; trisomies; candidates for organ transplantation; Donors of registered organs in transplant programs and people with hemoglobinopathies.
In a joint action between the Belo Horizonte City Hall, Ministry of Health and the Minas Gerais State Secretariat of Health, monitoring of people who had suspected or confirmation of hepatitis is being done during April.
This content was originally published in Hepatitis A vaccination A is expanded in Belo Horizonte on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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