Pneumococcal Vaccination Atlas

Country Profile: Slovenia

Recommendations

Children:
Children aged 3 to 18 months

At-risk groups:
At-risk groups at a national level

Older adults:
All people over the age of 65

Coverage figures (2021)

Children: 58.20%

At-risk groups: –

Older adults: –

Vaccination advisory body/committee

Advisory Committee on Immunization (Posvetovalna skupina za cepljenj)

Sources:

ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=188

WHO vaccine scheduler: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/schedule-by-country/svn.html?DISEASECODE=PNEUMO&TARGETPOP_GENERAL=

Children

WHO: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/coverage/pcv.html?CODE=SVN&ANTIGEN=PCV1+PCV2+PCV3&YEAR=

Children

ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=188

At-risk groups

National Institute of Public Health: https://nijz.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cepljenje_pnevmo_za_odrasle_in_otroke_nad_5_let_posodobljen_18_10_2022.pdf

At-risk groups aged 5 and over: vaccination is recommended but self-paid.

Older adults

ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=188

Older adults aged 65 and over: vaccination is recommended but not funded by the National Health system.

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