Two open days are scheduled on the 22nd in San Giovanni in Persiceto and Bologna to vaccinate against shingles (herpes zoster), pneumococcus and papilloma virus. This is how the Bologna Local Health Authority aims to fight three important pathologies, on the occasion of World Immunization Week. This year we celebrate 50 years of the EPI, the Expanded Immunization Program, and its results such as the eradication of smallpox, the substantial defeat of polio and a general improvement in the health conditions of children.
The open days in San Giovanni and Bologna
The first day is already set for Monday in San Giovanni in Persiceto. Men and women born between 1952 and 1959 who are not yet protected against Shingles (Herpes zoster) and Pneumococcus will be able to be vaccinated. You can access without reservation, from 9 am to 1 pm, the health center of San Giovanni in Persiceto in Circonvallazione Dante Alighieri, 12/D.
In the afternoon in Bologna, the other open day focuses on the protection of young people from the Papillomavirus (HPV) and is aimed at girls born between 1999 and 2012 and boys born between 2006 and 2012. The vaccinations, free and without reservation, they will be carried out from 2pm to 6pm at the Community House – Navile, in via Svampa 8. Vaccination against the Papilloma Virus is the most effective measure for the prevention of tumors of the female and male genital system and of the oropharynx. It is estimated that every year in Italy the Papilloma Virus is the cause of 6,000 tumors in both men and women.
The conference on April 23rd at the Ospedale Maggiore in Bologna
A conference entitled ‘Vaccinations: the network of services in the territory of the Local Health Authority of Bologna’ will be held on Tuesday 23 April in the Aula Magna of the Ospedale Maggiore. The event is aimed at doctors, doctors in specialist training and healthcare professionals who carry out vaccinations and are involved in vaccination promotion.
During the conference, the results of vaccination coverage for the various diseases and of the various campaigns in Italy, in the region and in the Bologna area will be illustrated, both in the pediatric and adult sectors, as well as the strategies to further expand coverage through vaccination both in hospital and in local clinics.
Results of the Expanded Immunization Program
In just fifty years we have gone from a world where the death of a child was something many parents feared, to a world where every child – if vaccinated – has the chance to survive and grow up healthy.
From 1974 to today, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) has grown from protection against 6 childhood diseases to the current 13 vaccines universally recommended throughout life and 17 additional vaccines with context-sensitive recommendations. Although global vaccination coverage is good – with 4 out of 5 children fully covered – there is still much to be done, according to the WHO.
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