Country Profile: Hungary
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 2 to 12 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups of all ages, including people with compromised immunity; chronic patients who are more susceptible to serious pneumococcal infection due to their underlying disease: lung (COPD, asthma), heart, kidney, liver and diabetes patients, immunosuppressed; anatomical and functional spleen deficiency, spleen dysfunction; smokers – regardless of age or illness
Older adults:
All people over the age of 60
Coverage figures (2021)
Children: 99.76%
At-risk groups: –
Older adults: –
Vaccination advisory body/committee
Immunization Advisory Body (Védőoltási Tanácsadó Testület)
Sources:
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=95
Immunization Advisory Body: http://www.vacsatc.hu/?V%E9d%F5olt%E1si-M%F3dszertani-Lev%E9l-2018&pid=63
Children
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=95
At-risk groups
Immunization Advisory Body: http://www.vacsatc.hu/?V%E9d%F5olt%E1si-M%F3dszertani-Lev%E9l-2018&pid=63
A pneumococcal vaccine can be ordered with a 70% subsidy for people with specific underlying health conditions.
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=95
Older adults aged 60 and over: vaccination is recommended but not funded by the National Health system.
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