Key Points

• Continued increase in vaccination uptake among infants subject to the expanded mandatory vaccination requirement for meningococcal vaccination:

  • In Guadeloupe, 81.9% received a first dose of the meningococcal C vaccine (+4.8 percentage points compared to 2019) and in Martinique, 74.1% (+10.7 percentage points compared to 2019)

  • In Guadeloupe, 85.2% received the meningococcal C vaccine booster (+3.3 percentage points compared to 2018), and in Martinique, 84.1% (+8.0 percentage points compared to 2019)

  • Increase in catch-up vaccination coverage against meningococcal C across all age groups

• However, growth has plateaued or even declined for other vaccines in Guadeloupe:

  • 85.4% received a third dose of the hexavalent vaccine (+0.6 percentage points compared to 2018)

  • 82.9% received a third dose of the pneumococcal vaccine (-2.2 percentage points compared to 2018)

  • 87.2% received a first dose of the MMR vaccine (+2 percentage points compared to 2018) but 75.5% received a second dose of the MMR vaccine (-1.6 percentage points compared to 2017)

• A slight increase in HPV vaccination coverage, which remains low in Guadeloupe and Martinique:

  • +1.2 and +2.7 percentage points for the first dose of the HPV vaccine among 15-year-old girls born in 2006 (25.1% and 16.9%) compared to girls born in 2005 (24.0% and 14%) in Guadeloupe and Martinique, respectively

• Decrease in influenza vaccination coverage compared to the 2019–2020 season:

  • - 4.0 and -3.2 percentage points among at-risk individuals in Guadeloupe and Martinique, respectively