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POLICY BRIEF article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. General Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Care
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1551734
A Practical Guidance on the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Kurdistan
Provisionally accepted
Azad Haleem 1*
Azhar Alsaqee 2 Lana A Dizayi 3 Sasan L Hanna 2 Abbas A Rabaty 2 Serdar Pedawi 4
Aso F Salih 5- 1 University of Duhok, Duhok, Iraq
- 2 College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq
- 3 Salahaddin University, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq
- 4 Hevi Paediatric Teaching Hospital, Duhok, Iraq
- 5 College of Medicine, University of Sulaimani, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
•Without an available vaccine in Kurdistan, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection threatens younger children, burdens the healthcare system and contributes to household expenditure on health. •Immunoprophylaxis remains the only preventive option in Kurdistan. Expert pediatricians recommend palivizumab to children at RSV risk; particularly infants1.born within 29 gestational weeks and <1-year-old at RSV season start, 2.born premature (>29 gestational weeks) at risk for RSV hospitalization,3.with congenital lung disease requiring oxygen therapy for >1 month and are <2 years old at RSV season start, and 4.with hemodynamically significant congenital heart disease and acyanotic heart and who are <2 years of age at RSV season start. •We call onto health authorities to support palivizumab immunoprophylaxis to all children at risk for RSV
Keywords: respiratory syncytial virus, Palivizumab, immunoprophylaxis, Pediatric Respiratory Care, Kurdistan
Received: 03 Jan 2025; Accepted: 24 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Haleem, Alsaqee, Dizayi, Hanna, Rabaty, Pedawi and Salih. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Azad Haleem, University of Duhok, Duhok, Iraq
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