Measles Diseases Threatening - Compared with 10 years ago, routine immunization coverage of several that must be given appropriate government programs tend to decrease. This resulted in a number of infectious diseases in infants, such as measles, is not resolved and still threatens infants who are not immunized.
Some areas do not yet optimal immunization, with coverage of less than 90 percent in 2008. For measles immunization in Papua, for example, only covered 60.7 percent, 77.6 percent of West Sulawesi and East Nusa Tenggara 74.2 percent. Measles is a disease marked by high fever and a rash. This disease in the world to kill one of the 1,000 cases of infection.
Not achieving the target of immunization to include all infants, in some areas, partly due to the still limited public understanding of immunization even wrong, especially in urban areas. As in rural areas because of lack of infrastructure and lack of healthy way of life.
"The success of immunization programs depends on the readiness of health workers, the level of public awareness, and tools to ensure the effectiveness of the vaccine," said Director General of Disease Control & Environmental Health Department Tjandra Yoga Aditama, Saturday (5/9) in Jakarta.
Five mandatory immunization
Immunization efforts in Indonesia have been conducted since the 1970s in infants and children. According the government's immunization program, there are five types of immunizations must be given to infants aged 0-11 months, namely polio, BCG, hepatitis B, DPT, and measles.
As for the recommended immunizations is MMR, Hib, typhoid, hepatitis A, varicella, PPV, and pneumococcal (IPD).
Some of the benefits of immunization are required to be given that include hepatitis B vaccine prevents infection with hepatitis B, BCG vaccine to prevent severe tuberculosis, DPT vaccine to prevent diphtheria, whooping cough (pertussis) and tetanus. The polio vaccine to prevent polio.
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