Country Profile: Sweden
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 3 to 12 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups aged 2-64, including asplenia or hyposplenia; CSF leak; immunocompromised people, such as people who have undergone stem cell or bone marrow transplants, people with haematological cancer, sickle cell anemia, lung cancer, or impaired immune systems due to treatment with immunosuppressing drugs; cochlear implants; cystic fibrosis; people who have received organ transplants
Older adults:
All people over the age of 65
Coverage figures (2021)
Children: 97.40%
At-risk groups: –
Older adults: –
Vaccination advisory body/committee
Reference group for national vaccination programmes (Referensgrupp för nationella vaccinationsprogram)
Sources:
Children
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=192
At-risk groups
Public Health Agency of Sweden: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/vaccinationer/fragor-och-svar/pneumokockinfektion2/
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=192
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