Ministry of Health receives 500,000 more doses of measles vaccine, expanding vaccination target

In response to the World Health Organization's warning of a measles outbreak in Vietnam and the actual developments of the disease situation in localities, vaccination is identified as 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, including the 2024 campaign with a result of 97.1% and the first phase of the 2025 campaign with a result of 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 (6%) in the group from 1 to 10 years old (accounting for 61.4%); decreased slightly (0.4%) in the group under 1 year old (accounting for 2.7%, including children under 6 months old who are not indicated for measles vaccination), but increased by 6.4% in the group over 10 years old (accounting for 35.9%, mainly in the group from 11-15 years old accounting for 19.2% and the group over 16 years old accounting for 16.7%).

To continue to organize the measles vaccination campaign for the subjects, quickly control the epidemic, based on the proposed vaccine demand and the scope of the measles vaccination campaign of the provinces and cities, the Ministry of Health has 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. The Ministry of Health plans to complete the first round of vaccine distribution before April 30, 2025 and the second round before May 15, 2025. The Ministry of Health will immediately allocate vaccines to localities to promptly implement the vaccination campaign.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Lien Huong, Deputy Minister of Health, said that the goal of the 2025 measles vaccination campaign implementation plan, phase 3, 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.

The target groups of the plan are: children 6 months of age 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 of age who have not been vaccinated in the first and second vaccination campaigns in 2025 in high-risk areas and areas with measles cases/epidemics; 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.

Source: https://nhandan.vn/bo-y-te-tiep-nhan-them-500-nghin-lieu-vaccine-soi-mo-rong-doi-tuong-tiem-chung-post874324.html