Recupero vaccinale anti-rosolia nel post-partum

The primary aim of rubella vaccination is the prevention of prenatal rubeolic infection. The 2003 National Plan to eliminate measles and congenital rubella aims at reducing the incidence of congenital rubella to rates lower than 1 case/ 100,000 children born alive and the strategies to obtain this result need, besides the keeping of high vaccination rates during childhood, also the vaccination of women who are serum- negative immediately after the birth of their children. In Italy the risk of congenital rubella is still existing and present; the latest rubella epidemy occurred in 2002 with thousands of cases and about 10% of women in the reproductive age resulted rubeonegative and thus potentially at risk. In Piemonte region about 8% of women in reproductive age are rubeonegative and in our experience the rubella vaccination in the postpartum may reach the 100% of compliance.