Salta participates in National Vaccine Day and Vaccine Day events

Minister of State for Health, Carla Vizzotti, “This national conference is very important to prioritize, recognize and publicize the tremendous work that vaccinators did before and during the pandemic, and what they continue to do now,” he noted on the second day of the opening of the Science and Culture Center. work” and insisted that “vaccination is a public policy, a collective construct that must be pursued through a federal and equitable lens”.

As a result, he said, “everything we do is based on the belief that the state must exist in a supportive and fair manner so that everyone gets what they need, no matter where they were born or what social security they have.”

Among other topics, the history, evolution, impact and integration of vaccination in Argentina are discussed. The focus is on the health impact of vaccination in our country: Argentina remained free of measles and rubella (congenital rubella syndrome), registered its last polio case in 1984, and became enzootic in 2000 . 2007 was rubella, 2009 was rubella. In addition, vaccination can control outbreaks of diphtheria, which mainly affects infants, and reduce hepatitis A transplant cases by 96%.