Overall, young children in the U.S. maintained high vaccination rates in 2012, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
After OPV2 cessation, the vaccination strategy should maintain high vaccination intensity, but with bOPV instead of tOPV, until OPV13 cessation.
Nevertheless, similar to Sri Lanka, El Salvador has maintained high vaccination coverage even during conflicts with adequate provision of resources for vaccinations [ 21].
Brazil's challenges in facing rising pertussis rates will be to offer the highest quality medical care, improve the infrastructure for laboratory diagnostics and maintain high vaccination coverage.
Brazil's main challenges in facing pertussis resurgence will be to offer the highest quality medical attention to reduce mortality, to improve the infrastructure for laboratory diagnoses, and to maintain high vaccination coverage.
The resurgence of measles in 2011 in Belgium showed the need to maintain high vaccination coverage because other groups were affected by the measles virus in Brussels and Wallonia, for example, a Roma community and families opposed to vaccination due to fear of side effects [ 8].
Combination vaccines reduce the number of injections required to complete vaccination, thus playing an important role in maintaining high vaccine coverage with good public acceptability.
They were, for example: "Universal availability of vaccines in project areas"; "100% functioning of cold chain facilities in project areas"; "Maintain high vaccination coverage at no less than 80%".
