Country Profile: Ireland
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 2 to 13 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups aged 2-64, including diabetes; chronic lung, heart, liver, or kidney disease; chronic neurological disease; children aged over 2 years and under 5 years of age with a history of invasive pneumococcal disease; coeliac disease; Down Syndrome; cochlear implants or are about to get cochlear implants; immune deficiency because of a disease or treatment, including cancer patients; HIV infection; absent spleen or a non-functioning spleen; CSF leaks, either congenital or complicating skull fractures or neurosurgery; intracranial shunt
Older adults:
All people over the age of 65
Coverage figures (2021)
Children: 85.45%
At-risk groups: –
Older adults: –
Sources:
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=100
National Immunisation Advisory Committee: https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/pubinfo/adult/pneumo/#How%20can%20pneumococcal%20disease%20be%20prevented?
Children
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=100
At-risk groups
National Immunisation Advisory Committee: https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/pubinfo/adult/pneumo/#How%20can%20pneumococcal%20disease%20be%20prevented?
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=100
The vaccine is free of charge, but administration fees may be charged to patient (based on income and eligibility for free healthcare).
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