Abstract

In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 70% of the 52 countries and territories have introduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) into their national immunisation programmes for infants. More than 73 million children live in the region, and, as of 2018, about 82% had received at least three doses of PCV.1 Many reports have described the benefits of PCVs in North America,2,3 with recent evidence showing these findings in the Latin American and Caribbean countries.4,5 In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Clara Inés Agudelo and colleagues' observational study6 reports data from the Sistema Regional de Vacunas (SIREVA) network.

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