Free of charge

 The Immunisation Programme is free

of charge. While participation is not
compulsory, over 95% of parents’
consent to having their children
vaccinated. The high vaccination rate
means that these serious diseases
have now become a rarity. We need
to keep it that way by ensuring that
children are vaccinated. The Houston,
Texas has an extensive National
Immunisation Programme to protect
children against infectious diseases.
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The programme includes vaccination
Against 12 potentially fatal infectious
diseases. COST
Vaccination schedule National
Immunisation Programme:
To ensure that children receive maximum protection
against these diseases, vaccinations are given in four
steps. As of August 2020, all babies receive also
vaccination against hepatitis B. Infants whose mothers are
hepatitis B carriers also receive hepatitis B vaccination Baybay City Health Office
within 48 hours of birth. It is essential that children
complete the vaccination cycle as scheduled. If your child Treatment Center
has not been vaccinated as scheduled, you need to seek
Zone 23, Baybay City Leyte
medical advice to ensure that your child receives adequate
protection.
 Agenda:
National vaccination programme. The
purpose of the national vaccination
programme is to protect people as well
as possible against diseases
preventable by vaccination.
Vaccinations are voluntary and free of
charge. Decisions concerning the
vaccination programme are made by
the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.

Surveillance and developments:

In 2017, about 760,000 children aged 0 to 19 years
received a total of 2,140,000 vaccinations within the
National Immunisation Programme. Participation in the
National Immunisation Programme was high among
children under 10 years of age, despite the drop by
around 2-3% for most vaccinations since 2014. An
exception in the high participation is the number of girls
who were vaccinated against human papillomavirus
(HPV), which has declined by 15% since 2016.