A new “vaccination and immunization” strategy “2025-2030 also aims to better vaccinate at all ages: multiplication of vaccinating opportunities, support of new digital tools, training of professionals to promote vaccination, etc.
Stocks of vaccines among caregivers in the city, a strengthening of actions towards the most distant from care or a national observatory for the fight against disinformation are also on the horizon.
Meningococcus
Faced with a leap in invasive meningococcal infections, especially in adolescents and young adults, the vaccination strategy has been reinforced in several stages.
ACWY and B vaccination has been compulsory since January 1 for infants up to the age of 2, including those who have already been vaccinated against meningococcus C.
Children up to 4 years old must also be vaccinated against Méningococci B and ACWY, as part of a transient catch -up.
ACWY vaccination remains recommended for adolescents from 11 to 14 years old, and the remedial of vaccination aged 15-24 against meningococcal B and ACWY must intensify.
A awareness campaign “will be deployed in the coming weeks, intended for families, health professionals and young people, to support this reinforced vaccination strategy“.
Measles
The resurgence of measles is increasing in France as well as internationally, but the proportion of vaccinated necessary to allow the elimination of this disease (95% for two doses of vaccine) is still not reached in the country.
“”Beyond the vaccination of infants (94.6% of infants born in 2023 received at least one dose editor’s note), it is necessary to continue the catch-up of people who are not or insufficiently vaccinated, in particular among health professionals“, According to the Ministry of Health and Public Health France.
Papillomavirus (HPV)
Vaccination against papillomavirus, “which warns up to 90% of HPV infections causing different cancers”, displays a “significant progression” among adolescents, driven by the countryside intended for 5th graders started in the fall of 2023.
In 2024, 58.4% of 15 -year -old girls received a first dose of vaccine against 54.6% in 2023, and 36.9% of young boys aged 15 against 25.9% a year earlier.
The results of the 2024-2025 campaign at the college will be communicated after the summer.
France, still far from the target of vaccination coverage of 80% by 2030, wants to accentuate this upward trend in the hope in particular of one day eradicating cervical cancer -perspective in sight for Australia or certain Nordic countries.
Pneumococcus and zona
These two vaccinations are now recommended for all people aged 65 and over, knowing that less than 20% of people at high risk of pneumococcal infections are properly vaccinated.
VRS (syncytial respiratory virus)
This vaccination against the main virus responsible for bronchiolitis is now recommended for all people aged 75 and over, as well as those aged 65 to 74 and presenting chronic respiratory and cardiac pathologies.
DTP, Flu and COVID-19
In people aged 65, only one in two is properly vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus and polio, or against flu.
However, these reminders remain “essential” for these seniors, underlines the Ministry of Health and Public Health France, recalling that vaccination remains the “most effective means of protecting against many infectious diseases”.
The “prevention assessment” between 60 and 65 years and free consultation at 65 are opportunities for the verification of the vaccination status and, if necessary, a catch -up, believe the authorities, for whom “the remobilization of all health professionals to improve the vaccination of seniors is essential”.
A simplified card of recommendations for 65 and over is now available to caregivers.