When to vaccinate your children, at what age, and against which diseases? To find your way around, the Ministry of Health published, on April 26, the vaccination schedule for 2024. Here is an infographic of the mandatory vaccines, those that are now recommended and the ages at which to vaccinate your children or get vaccinated. This year, the authorities are particularly recommending better coverage of pneumococcal and meningococcal infections, measles and shingles.
Here is an infographic of the mandatory vaccines, those that are now recommended and the ages at which to vaccinate your children or get vaccinated. This year, the authorities are recommending in particular better cover pneumococcal and meningococcal infections, measles and shingles.
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What’s new this year
- Vaccination against pneumococcal infections
A new vaccine is introduced for vaccination against pneumococci, compulsory for infants: the 15-valent conjugate vaccine VaxneuvanceR can be used as soon as it is available and covered by Health Insurance.
In adults over 18 years of age at risk of invasive pneumococcal infection, vaccination should preferably be carried out with a dose of 20-valent PrevenarR conjugate vaccine, as soon as it is available and covered by Insurance. disease.
- Shingles Vaccination
Vaccination is recommended for people aged 65 and over and for immunocompromised older adults aged 18 and over.
- Measles vaccination
To ensure better protection, an additional dose of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) is recommended for people born after 1980 and who received a first vaccination before the age of one.
- Covid-19 and papillomavirus (HPV) infections
- Vaccination against Covid-19 is recommended each year in the fall for people aged 65 and over and people at risk of severe form of Covid-19. An additional dose of vaccine is recommended in the spring for people aged 80 and over, immunocompromised people and residents in EHPADs and USLDs (long-term care units), respecting a period of at least 3 months since the last dose of vaccine or last infection.
- HPV vaccination is recommended for girls and boys aged 11 to 14 years with a 2-dose schedule 6 months apart. Furthermore, for those who were not vaccinated at 14 years old, catch-up vaccination is recommended for young women and young men between 15 and 19 years old inclusive (3 doses necessary in this case).
Mandatory vaccinations
The compulsory vaccination course consists of 6 appointments and 10 injections (with combined vaccines) to protect against 11 diseases in total. Most vaccinations are carried out during the child’s compulsory examinations. All children born from January 1, 2018 are subject to compulsory vaccination.
The mandatory vaccinations are as follows:
- diphtheria;
- tetanus;
- poliomyelitis;
- Haemophilius influenzae B (bacterium causing pneumonia and meningitis);
- whooping cough;
- Hepatitis B ;
- measles;
- mumps;
- rubella;
- meningococcus C (bacteria causing meningitis);
- pneumococcus (bacteria causing pneumonia and meningitis).
