The Ministry of Health, through the Expanded Program on Immunization (PAI), has started an awareness and community engagement campaign in priority areas in the central sector to increase vaccination coverage in the country.
So volunteers go door-to-door in communities such as Fernando de la Mora, Luque and San Lorenzo to provide reliable information and break myths about the vaccine that often prevent families and their children from getting vaccinated at vaccination centres. Doses in the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) schedule.
Through a door-to-door strategy, information is distributed days before the vaccination teams arrive to provide information and explain the importance of a standardized vaccination programme, with the aim of increasing vaccination rates among children aged one to five years. life.
In Fernando de la Mora and Luque, the event will take place from Tuesday, October 3 to Friday, October 6, in strategic locations.
Meanwhile, vaccinations in San Lorenzo will take place this Tuesday (October 3) and Thursday (October 5).
| City | date | place | Hour |
| Luke | 2/10 | 7° C° Itá Angu’a, Bell Bird | 7:30 to 12:30 |
| Luke | 3/10 | 7° C° Itá Angu’a, Yukyry, Villa Sagrada Flia. | 7:30 to 12:30 |
| Luke | 4/10 | I nodded.divine child | 7:30 to 12:30 |
| Luke | 5/10 | 18 kilometers | 7:30 to 12:30 |
| Luke | 6/10 | B° Aoi | 7:30 to 12:30 |
| san lorenco | 3/10 | B° San Juan and B° Lucerito | 7:30 to 12:00 |
| san lorenco | 5/10 | B° Assumption of Mary | 7:30 to 12:00 |
| fernando | 2/10 | B° Cocuguazu | 7:30 to 12:00 |
| fernando | 3/10 | B°Pityan Tuta | 7:30 to 12:00 |
| fernando | 4/10 | B° Ita Kaaji | 7:30 to 12:00 |
| fernando | 5/10 | B°Bernardino Caballero | 7:30 to 12:00 |
| fernando | 6/10 | B°City | 7:30 to 12:00 |
These include BCG, rotavirus, hexavalent, hepatitis and varicella vaccines, MMR, DPT, HPV, TD, pneumococcal, TDPA, SR, TD, yellow fever and seasonal influenza vaccines.
Salud said the goal of the stepped-up vaccination campaign is to communicate effectively with parents or caregivers and community members who may have different attitudes toward vaccines or the health system in general.
The tasks are also designed to encourage parents or carers to ask questions and provide clear and appropriate answers to these questions about the vaccination system.
Likewise, the health department said that in addition to enabling community engagement and communication campaigns about vaccination, the aim is to dispel rumors, concerns or misconceptions.
They note in the PAI that understanding families’ experiences with immunization services is key to empathizing with the child’s parents or guardians.
EPI insists that childhood immunization is one of the most effective health interventions available, as it helps save up to 3 million lives every year, prevents unnecessary suffering, and saves time and money.
In the sense that more and more vaccines protect children from harmful diseases, immunization has eliminated smallpox, nearly eliminated polio, and reduced deaths from measles by 78%.
According to EPI, despite huge progress, almost one in 10 babies in the world has not received any vaccinations in recent years.
In Paraguay, despite well-implemented policies, funding, resources and services, many children are still not receiving all the doses they need.
Although many parents or caregivers receive childhood immunizations, dropout rates are high and there is some resistance.
The event is supported by technical and financial cooperation from UNICEF, Habitat for Humanity Paraguay and the International Red Cross.