The 2025 vaccine calendar is released, with lots of new features on the vaccination of seniors. But not all recommendations yet operational. Good news, the registration of catch -up against meningitis opens up new perspectives at the counter.
The 2025 vaccine calendar was presented this April 28, at the opening of European vaccination week, the theme of which is the vaccination of seniors this year. The new features of the calendar illustrate this fully.
Thus, vaccination against pneumococci is extended to all people aged 65 and over, and no longer the only elderly people with comorbidities, with a vaccine at 20 valences (Prevenar 20), according to a single dose scheme. « Less than 20 % of people aged 65 and over at high risk of pneumococcal infection are vaccinated ”, Justifies Dr. Caroline SERMAILLE, Director General of Public Health France.
The striking entry of this 2025 calendar is the registration of vaccinations against the syncytial respiratory virus (Vrs). Abrysvo, Arexvy or Mresvia vaccines are recommended (without preference between the three vaccines) in all people aged 75 and over, and in people aged 65 and over with chronic or heart respiratory pathology likely to decompensation during a VRS infection. It remains to set a price for these three vaccines so that they can enter the ordinary reimbursement law. Still on VRS vaccination, the recommendation of the Abrysvo vaccine in pregnant women between 32e and the 36e Amenorrhea week upstream of the epidemic period and until the end of this period is engraved in the calendar, after a first winter season, to protect newborns and infants less than 6 less.
These vaccinations are to be combined with other recommendations for seniors. To mobilize players in the field and improve all the vaccine covers of the elderly, insufficient (flu, COVID-19, DTP, etc.), the health authorities have designed a new card of recommendations:
New vaccinations at the pharmacy
More generally, the 2025 calendar includes recommendations against meningococcus And will simplify life at the counter. Thus, vaccination against ACWY and B serogroups is now compulsory in all infants, that is to say born before 2025 and elderly up to 2 years (and no longer only those born from January 1, 2025). Even infants already vaccinated against serogroup C should receive their doses of ACWY (Nimenrix or Menquadfi) vaccine. Among the oldest, the new vaccine calendar reiterates the recommendation to vaccinate all adolescents from 11 to 14 years old against ACWY meningococcal, regardless of their vaccination status. New, this vaccination is recommended for young people aged 15 to 24, a public eligible for pharmacy vaccination. But the progress comes mainly from the registration of vaccination among 15-24 year olds against meningococcus B, opening the possibility of a prescription and administration at the pharmacy. Finally, if it is not written black on white in the vaccination calendar, the transient catch-up of ACWY and B vaccinations in the 2 to 4 years will be well supported by health insurance “Under the same conditions” that the other targets, confirms the Directorate General of Health (DGS) to the “Daily of the Pharmacist”.
Another remarkable entry: that of vaccination against dengueRecommended with the Qdenga vaccine to residents of the Antilles, Guyana, Mayotte and Reunion, in children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 with documented history of dengue and in people aged 17 to 60 years presenting comorbidities (sickle cell anemia, complicated high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, renal failure, chronic cardio-pulmonary conditions, other hemoglobinopathies, thrombocytopathies), with or without a dengue of dengue.
New vaccination obligations for caregivers?
To protect vulnerable populations from another infection in resurgence, with a particularly high number of deaths in newborns and infants since 2024, strengthening vaccination against whooping is maintained. Thus, a reminder is always recommended for adults over 25 belonging to the entourage of the newborn (parents, siblings, grandparents and other people likely to be in close and lasting contact with the infant during her first six months), unless the mother was vaccinated during pregnancy at least a month before delivery (DTCAPOLIO reminder). Health and early childhood professionals are also targeted, with a vaccination to be carried out if the last injection dates from more than 5 years. “For the pregnant woman, the vaccination against darling is every pregnancy”, Recalls the DGS.
Caregivers are also at the heart of the new 2025-2030 vaccine strategy. According to the DGS, the High Authority for Health (HAS) is currently working to measure “The burden of public health that the single vaccination coverage of caregivers has, whether on influenza vaccination or seasonal vaccinations. It is once we have this information that developments could take place. »» Expected conclusions “In the summer or next school year”.
