Brazil vaccinated in 2010

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Brazil vaccinated in 2010

Government announced that it will receive 40 million doses of avian A. The audience was not definidoO Brazilian government will receive 40 million doses of influenza vaccine in the first half of next year. The announcement of the purchase was made by the Ministry of Health The target audience of immunizations has not been defined.

The vaccines cost about $ 444.7 million, which are among the $ 2.1 billion released by the government last October to the actions of coping with the new flu.

The choice of firms selling the doses given to the lowest price. The British GSK will supply the first batch, at a cost of $ 6.43 per serving. In all, six vendors were invited to submit proposals according to criteria and recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO).

- The production of vaccine against the new virus, Influenza A (H1N1) has been slower than expected global demand and the vaccine is much greater than supply - explained the director of Epidemiological Surveillance Ministry of Health, Eduardo Hage.

Increase in the number of cases in Mexico and USA

The priority target groups for vaccination in Brazil are still being studied by the Ministry of Health, which follows the WHO recommendations and the actions of the Northern Hemisphere, already facing the so-called second wave of disease because they are going into winter.

In countries like Mexico and the United States has observed a number of serious cases higher than those recorded in March and April 2009, when the disease emerged.

In this batch, the Ministry of Health will also buy the vaccines produced by the Butantan Institute, the only producer in Latin America. It is also planned to open bids for the purchase of another batch of international suppliers.

The amounts and deadlines for completion of these purchases are still being defined.

 

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Government plans to vaccinate 83 million against influenza A. But it is unclear whether laboratories will deliver the doses necessary

16.12.2009 | 00:04 | Paola Carriel with State Agency
Delay laboratories in producing vaccines against influenza A (H1N1), swine flu, can prevent the Brazilian government plans to immunize nearly half of the population against the disease before the start the next winter. The government ordered 83 million doses, which should be available between March and April of next year.

If the total estimated volume is reached, the vaccination will be used for all healthy young adults aged 20 to 29 years, professionals health, pregnant women, people with comorbidities such as diabetes or obesity, and children up to two years. The healthy elderly receive only vaccine against seasonal influenza. This should be a major immunization campaigns already registered in the country.

Paran? registered 45 thousand cases of people infected with influenza A since the pandemic began in April, until this month of December. Of these, 13 thousand occurred in the capital region. Reported by epidemiological bulletin published by the State Department of Health (SESA) last Monday. There was one death in Umuarama last week and the death toll reached 286. Reports show that in the last month there were five deaths in the state, compared with 21 in just one week during the month of August. Between the 3rd and 10th of that month, an average of 2.62 deaths per day.

Experts argue prioritization
Experts said the decision to do a mass vaccination and prioritize the young population is right. The infectious Alceu Pacheco, president of the Paraguayan Infectious Diseases, says the vaccine is the only way to control the disease, because it breaks the chain of transmission.



Remedy will be tax free
Brasilia - The Board of Trade will exempt the Tamiflu drug and its active ingredient, oseltamivir phosphate, the Import Tax. The drug is used in the fight against swine flu. The measure is limited to 94.5 million capsules of the drug. The quota allowed for the input was 4 billion pounds.



Virus circulates in incarceration
At least 21 prisoners from a total of 33 men and women caught in the B wing of the incarceration of Police of St. Anthony of Platinum, Pioneer in the north, developed symptoms of influenza A (H1N1). One of the prisoners, said the officer Julio Cesar de Sousa, has this disease, which leads the police to suspect that all other detainees who had symptoms of influenza A that side must also be contaminated.

However, if the government can lower doses than expected, you must restrict the number of groups considered a priority. And seeing the situation in the Northern Hemisphere, facing this winter season, the possibilities for reducing the number of doses seem great.

Buy

In early November the Ministry of Health reported the purchase of 40 million doses for next year. The Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo, will produce over 33 million and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will provide 10 million. However, the Minister Jos? S?crates should only make the official announcement of the age distribution in late January - just because there is a possibility that the British laboratory GSK can not provide the whole lot aside by the government. The United States, for example, planned 250 million doses and achieved only about 80 million to date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Center for Control and Prevention).

Last month, the Brazilian government invested approximately $ 444.7 million in the purchase of 40 million doses. Each one cost about U.S. $ 6.43. The money to pay for the vaccines will come from the Provisional Measure 469, which earmarked $ 2 billion to cope with the pandemic influenza A, caused by the H1N1 virus. Half of this resource will be used for vaccination and the other half to the purchase of equipment and staff training.

Vaccines

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that the producers chose to produce a seasonal flu vaccine in the elderly, given each year, trivalent (which protect against pandemic flu virus and two circulating) or bivalent, without the pandemic virus . According to the Director of Epidemiological Surveillance Ministry, Eduardo Hage, the folder has chosen to target the Butantan Institute, a public institution that makes the most flu shots for seniors, to produce a bivalent so that he could use the strains of A (H1N1 ) in the production of vaccine for those at highest risk. "The population above 60 years would have an immunity, or because older people have contact with the A (H1N1) or by vaccination, which gives some protection," says Hage.

It was decided that the elderly can receive both vaccines. "There is a possibility that interferes with the other." The director pointed out, however, that the priority to people with chronic diseases will allow many elderly people who have these problems be addressed.

Eduardo Hage also said changes in the protocol of diagnosis and treatment of swine flu severe cases admitted only do the confirmatory laboratory test for the virus and will be offered a second treatment, zanamivir (Relenza), for cases resistant to oseltamivir (Tamiflu).

For the ministry, the new flu is in low activity in Brazil. In the week between 22 and 28 November, were recorded throughout the country, only seven cases of severe respiratory disease caused by the pandemic virus. Week peak between 2 and 8 August were 4176 cases of this type. From April 25 to November 28, the states reported to the Ministry of Health 27,850 severe cases and 1628 deaths caused by the pandemic virus.

Youth

The choice for the young people as a priority group to receive the vaccine occurred because they were the biggest victims of death and pollution. In Paran?, for example, of 286 deaths, 176 were aged between 20 and 49 years. According to Hage, 50 of the 83 million doses have been reserved for healthy young adults 20 to 34 years. "Many countries have not offered vaccine for this population." Another novelty is that indigenous groups have also become part of the priority group.

 

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Brazil will acquire 83 million vaccines against influenza A (H1N1)
Written by odalys Trojan
tuesday, 05 of 2010 of enero

05 of January 2010, 14:59 Rio de Janeiro, Jan 5 (Prensa Latina) The Brazilian government will begin next March a vaccination campaign against influenza A (H1N1) which closed today for agreements that will allow them to purchase 83 million doses against influenza.

According to a Health Ministry statement will be given priority in the process of vaccination for pregnant workers in that sector, children aged six months to two years, indigenous people and people with chronic illnesses.

The text stresses that it invested $ 584 million to purchase vaccines supplied by three companies, and has allocated an additional $ 23.2 million in the acquisition of gadgets to implement them. In addition, the Health Ministry ordered ten million doses to the Pan American Health Organization, and 33 million doses Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo.

In February, the portfolio will announce a strategy to vaccinate all people.

Brazil ended 2009 with 27 thousand 850 cases of influenza A (H1N1), of which 1,623 were killed, according to an official.

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Published on January 20, 2010

ARRIVES IN BRAZIL VACCINE AGAINST INFLUENZA A (H1N1)

The Ministry of Health has announced the availability of the vaccine against influenza A (H1N1) for this year. The immunization campaign promises to be one of the largest ever held in the country and will take place between March and April, when the likely start of a second wave of disease.
The Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo, in Brazil responsible for the development of vaccine against the common flu (seasonal), also develop immunization against influenza A (H1N1). The Ministry of Health will evaluate, together with the Institute, the possible need to purchase vaccines prepared from other manufacturers. Also according to the Ministry, have been reserved 83 million doses for megavacina??o.
"The audience will follow the criteria regulated by the World Health Organization, which is not yet defined. Certainly, it should include pregnant women, children six months to two years, those with comorbidities, immunocompromised patients and professionals of health who have contact with patients with HIV, "said Dr.. Sonia Mayumi Chiba, pulmonologist's Society Paulista Thoracic Society (SPPT) and assistant medical sector pediatric pulmonology at the Federal University of S?o Paulo (UNIFESP).
According to the pulmonologists, the current epidemiological situation in Brazil and the world, recorded a pandemic cases clinically mild and low mortality. "As there is more to report all suspected cases and laboratory tests indicated only in severe cases, the WHO guidelines, the fatality rate becomes inaccurate. The average presented so far is 0.5% in the world. The priority, at least in Brazil, at the moment, is working to prevent severe cases and deaths, "warns Dr.. Sonia.
Contraindications of vaccination against avian H1N1 is a true allergy to egg, neomycin or polymyxin, and previous reaction to influenza vaccine.

The Ministry of Health has purchased the first batch of vaccines against influenza A (H1N1), about 40 million doses, available as recommended by the World Health Organization and the actions of nations in the northern hemisphere.
"Brazil is at an advanced stage in the acquisition of vaccines, with a view to strengthen the actions of disease prevention. In addition, the Ministry has been meeting with a committee of experts to define the rational use of therapeutic resources available, which certainly include the application of measures to protect health professionals, workforce essential for addressing the pandemic of H1N1, " says dr. Ricardo Martinez, professor of medicine at the University of Brasilia and member of the Virus Subcommittee of the Brazilian Thoracic Society (BTS).
Countries like Mexico and the United States, already living the coldest days of the year, it recorded a higher number of severe cases of respiratory disease compared to 2009, when there was the emergence of the disease.
"The vaccine should be seen as a further element of aid to disease control and can not be neglected hygiene measures and respiratory antiviral medication. Each state must develop its own criteria to better serve the people, "said dr. Ricardo.

 

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Brazil to Launch in March vaccination influenza A (H1N1)
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

January 26, 2010, 20:25Brasilia, Jan 26 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao, today announced that on March 8 began the vaccination campaign against influenza A (H1N1), before the beginning of the winter stage, with increasing spread of virus.

At a press conference, Gomes Temporao said the goal of immunization is to reduce the incidence of such deaths from flu and riexgo groups and noted that the country bought 83 million doses of vaccine at a cost of billions of reals (525 million dollars).

The campaign is divided into four stages will be completed next May and will be vaccinated high-risk groups, health workers network, indigenous, pregnant women, carriers of chronic illnesses, children from six months to two years of age, young people between 20 and 29 years of age and older with chronic conditions.

The minister said he expected to immunize some 62 million Brazilians and subsequent doses purchased by the agency will be reserved for the event of epidemiological changes over the winter and given the possible need to widen the target audience of the disease.

During the first wave of the pandemic in Brazil, between April 25 and 31 December 2009, was 39 thousand 679 cases reported that flu, with 705 thousand deaths.

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