Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said: "I am able to announce today that the next group in the population that will be vaccinated, or offered vaccination, is children aged over six months and under five years".
Finally, SAM children without prior vaccination will be vaccinated against measles at Day 28.
Our results suggest that accelerated RV vaccination would reduce annual numbers of RVGE-related hospitalizations by 300 400, ED visits by 3000 4000, and outpatient visits by 3000 4000 in US clinical practice, assuming not all children will be vaccinated and depending on the precise vaccination schedule.
Added UNICEF Representative Geert Cappelaere, who spoke on behalf of the UN Country Team in Sierra Leone: "We can guarantee that every child will be vaccinated against polio, every woman will receive vaccines and every child will be breastfed exclusively and grow healthily".
In the Netherlands, girls aged 12 years will be vaccinated as of September 2009, and the catch-up vaccination (girls aged 13 to 16 years) will probably start in the first part of 2009.
At the beginning of each simulation year, each individual is assigned a "vaccination day", irrespective of whether this individual will be vaccinated or not.
You cat will be vaccinated against feline distemper and rabies, but there are other vaccinations that your vet may recommend.
Some 350,000 infants and 356,000 pregnant women will be vaccinated, with the goal of reaching and sustaining 95 per cent of total vaccine demand.
Initially, 500,000 health care workers will be vaccinated.
Just as in Europe and the USA, girls will be vaccinated in school.
The Government will announce if healthy children will be vaccinated alongside these groups or once the initial programme has finished.
