2023-04-22 18:46:03
With a adaptation of the song “Muchachos”which the group La Mosca did for Vaccination Week in the Americas, Argentina wants to also be champion in immunization.
The group La Mosca will perform the new version live at the Garrahan Hospital on April 27, within the framework of the #CadaVacunaCuenta Festival. The song will be part of the international event that It will take place between this Saturday and April 29, Promoted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), along with the 45 countries and territories of the Americas region.
What will Vaccination Week be like in the Americas?
On this occasion, the 21st Vaccination Week in the Americas (VWA) will be held which in Argentina this year will be accompanied by an adapted version of the song Muchachos, cin order to promote the application of vaccines in the different stages of life.
“Like goals in the soccer World Cup, each vaccine counts so that we are protected from diseases and take care of others. In the past we were champions in vaccination coverage and we can be it once more”, expressed the singer of La Mosca, Guillermo Novellis.
In addition, Novellis commented that the adaptation of the song popularized during the Qatar 2022 World Cup, mentions some of the vaccines present in the National Vaccination Calendarlike the ones that prevent polio, measles, chicken pox and flu and that the theme “Invite everyone to put on the missing one.”
What are the vaccination levels in Argentina?
The national health portfolio indicated in a statement that Vaccination coverage shows a drop at the regional level from 2010, a situation that deepened during the Covid-19 pandemicand that trend It is replicated in Argentina with a gradual and progressive decrease in the period 2009-2019.
In the aforementioned decade, in the country a 14 point decrease was observed in the third dose of polio vaccine (from 97% to 83%) and of 15 points for the first dose of MMR vaccine (86% in 2019) It protects once morest measles, rubella and mumps. Furthermore, according to official data, in 2021 none of the coverage of the National Calendar vaccines reached the expected goal.
In this context, this year the Vaccination Week in the Americas of PAHO calls on the general population under the slogan Get up to date #CadaVacunaCuenta to highlight the value of this public health tool that allowed the elimination of diseases in the region and in the country such as poliomyelitis, rubella, congenital rubella syndrome, measles, neonatal tetanus, and the smallpox eradication worldwide.
With information from Argentine News.
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