Ministry of Health receives 500,000 doses of measles vaccine, launches 3rd vaccination campaign

(PLVN) - In order to quickly control the measles epidemic, the Ministry of Health has urgently developed and issued a plan to implement the 3rd measles vaccination campaign in 2025. The vaccine used in this vaccination campaign is 500,000 doses of measles vaccine sponsored by FPT Corporation. The Ministry of Health will immediately allocate vaccines to localities to promptly implement the vaccination campaign.

Báo Pháp Luật Việt Nam•22/04/2025

On April 22, 2025, the Ministry of Health received 500,000 doses of measles vaccine sponsored by the FPT Long Chau pharmacy system and vaccination center.

At the reception ceremony, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Lien Huong, Deputy Minister of Health said: "The goal of the 3rd phase of the 2025 measles vaccination campaign implementation plan is that 95% of children who have not been vaccinated or have not received enough doses of measles-containing vaccine will be vaccinated with 1 dose of measles-containing vaccine."

According to the Deputy Minister of Health, the target groups of the plan are: children 6 months old who have not yet reached the vaccination schedule in the first and second vaccination campaigns in 2025 and children from 6 months to under 9 months old who have not been vaccinated in the first and second vaccination campaigns in 2025 in high-risk areas, areas with measles cases/measles outbreaks; children from 11 to 15 years old in high-risk/very high-risk communes/wards who have not been vaccinated/have not received enough doses of measles-containing vaccines and children with unknown vaccination history or unknown history of measles.

On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Lien Huong acknowledged and sincerely thanked FPT Long Chau for the timely and practical support and hoped that the Company would continue to accompany the Ministry of Health in implementing vaccination work in Vietnam. These vaccines will be immediately distributed to localities to speed up the vaccination progress, contributing to disease control in accordance with the direction of the Prime Minister.

Speaking at the donation ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Van Khoa - General Director of FPT Corporation expressed: "We respectfully donate 500,000 doses of measles vaccine to accompany the Ministry of Health in the third vaccination campaign. We expect this contribution will help the vaccination rate of two doses of measles vaccine exceed 95%, towards achieving community immunity, preventing the risk of widespread epidemics."

Previously, the Ministry of Health urgently developed and issued Decision No. 1340/QD-BYT dated April 21, 2025 on the plan to implement the 3rd measles vaccination campaign in 2025. The vaccine used in this vaccination campaign is 500,000 doses of measles vaccine sponsored by FPT Corporation. It is expected that the first vaccine allocation will be completed before April 30, 2025 and the second before May 15, 2025. The Ministry of Health will immediately allocate vaccines to localities to promptly implement the vaccination campaign.

In response to the World Health Organization's warning of the risk of a measles outbreak in Vietnam and the actual developments of the epidemic situation in localities, determining that vaccination is the most effective proactive disease prevention measure, in late 2024 and early 2025, the Ministry of Health organized two vaccination campaigns to prevent and control measles.

Accordingly, the 2024 campaign achieved 97.1% and the first phase of the 2025 campaign achieved 95.5%, with the initial implementation target being children from 1 to 10 years old and high-risk groups, then expanding the implementation target to children from 6 months to 9 months old in risk areas and areas where measles cases/measles outbreaks are occurring.

On March 15, 2025, the Prime Minister issued Official Dispatch No. 23/CD-TTg on accelerating vaccination against measles. Implementing the Prime Minister's direction, the Ministry of Health issued a plan to implement the second phase of the 2025 campaign and achieved a result of 96.4%, continuing to implement it for the target group of children from 6 months to 9 months old and children from 1 year to 10 years old.

Results after implementing measles vaccination campaigns, compared to the first 3 months of 2025, the measles incidence rate has begun to decrease in the group from 1 to 10 years old; decreased slightly in the group under 1 year old, but increased by 6.4% in the group over 10 years old.

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