NBHC Engagement
April 23, 2018
In an effort to increase vaccination rates, the federal health minister will support five multi-year projects to the tune of $3.4 million. Ginette Pettipas Taylor says Ottawa also launched a national awareness campaign on childhood vaccination. The government's goals by 2025 are:
- Ninety-five percent vaccination coverage for infants by age two and children by age seven;
- Ninety percent vaccination coverage for adolescents by age 17; and
- Eighty percent vaccination coverage for adults 65 years of age and older for the pneumococcal vaccine.
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