Vaccinate more than a million Salvadoran school age children

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Vaccinate more than a million Salvadoran school age children
San Salvador, 27 Feb (Notimex).
- More than a million schoolchildren from local border areas of El Salvador will be immunized during the eighth week of the vaccination in the Americas, health authorities reported today.

The deputy minister of industry, Violeta Menjivar, announced that the day will begin next weekend in the northern department of Chalatenango, on the border with Honduras.

`` We're trying to achieve vaccination coverage in the''cross-boundary municipalities, where this benefit has barely arrived, explained the official.

Childrens doses will be applied in public schools by medical staff and prior authorization from their parents.

During the campaign some doses will also be applied against H1N1 influenza, which are part of a grant that was awarded the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to prevent the disease.

The representative of PAHO in El Salvador, Jose Ruales, for his part explained that the effort of the day in Latin America and the Caribbean is not to replace the programs of the Ministries of Health, but to cover this benefit marginalized population.

El Salvador has been certified by OPS to be free of diseases such as measles, congenital rubella, measles and polio syndrome.

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Vaccinated students in El Salvador against H1N1 influenza
Monday, May 3, 2010

May 3 2010, 18:47 San Salvador, May 3 (Prensa Latina) The government of El Salvador began today vaccination against influenza A H1N1 to one million students in 510 000 public and private sector.

The campaign, which will last until the next day 31, is in charge of the ministries of health and education and involve students from seven to 18 years, according to an official announcement.

Spokesmen for the first of these portfolios indicated that schools are one of the main sources of infection of influenza, by proximity and coexistence between young people.

Immunization has the backing of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which won the dose.

Other 600 000 vaccines delivered by the OPS were applied last April to the population at risk, especially in pregnant women.

According to official figures, during 2009 the country had 851 confirmed cases of influenza A H1N1, of whom 33 died.

In 2010 have been investigated to date, seven samples, but only one case was confirmed, no deaths occurred.

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 / 10:29 h

School Children are immunized against influenza A H1N1

Vaccines against influenza A H1N1, totaling 1.5 million, are designed for elementary and secondary education. Diario Co Latino Photo / Rodrigo Sura


Beatriz Menjivar
Diario Co Latino Writing

One million 510 000 students of the national system of education will be immunized against influenza A virus H1N1.

The dose will be administered by staff from the Ministry of Health and Social Security to all students of schools, public and private, having an older age at 7 years old.

Immunization stops outside the nursery, since the dose applications based on data taken from the people most affected during a pandemic, which includes children from age 7 to seniors.

However, they apply vaccines delayed. "For the little ones of preschool have asked them to bring the ballot to complete the vaccine have not," explained the director of the School "Step widow Concha, Guillermo Borja.

For both applications, the director of the School said that children must have a signed permission from their parents.

"Parents must send signed a letter accepting the vaccine. It is one of the requirements that we asked health because children may have symptoms of temperature or another, "explained Boyle, the measure was confirmed by Sandra Wing, Director of Department of the Ministry of Education.

Jorge Alberto Mel?ndez, technical partner of the Ministry of Health of the metropolitan area, explained that there have been negative rumors about the vaccine.

Melendez said that an assessment is made before applying the vaccine, "there is talk that is going to be invalid or does not work, but it is a vaccine that has quality. Before applying the child asked if you are allergic to eggs or have had Guillain Barr? problems. "

"All medicines can have side effects or contraindications, a vaccine goes through quality standards and those allergic to these adverse effects can develop allergies," explains Melendez.

Immunization will be held from May 3 under the cooperation of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and is expected by the end of the month all the students of schools in the public system are immunized