Type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus represent an important public health problem worldwide.In 2021, in fact, according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), there are more than 536 million people in the world with diabetes in the 20-79 age group, in addition to 1.2 million, among children and adolescents, with type 1 diabetes. In Italy, on the other hand, according to ISTAT data from 2020, the prevalence of diabetes would be 5.9%, or over 3.5 million people, with a slowly increasing trend in recent years.“Vaccinations – declares Giovanni Gabutti, Coordinator of the 'Vaccines and Vaccination Policies' Working Group of the Italian Society of Hygiene – represent a fundamental safeguard for primary prevention and are a priority for public health.There is, in particular, a high risk deriving from infectious diseases and their complications in patients affected by co-morbidity, including, precisely, diabetic subjects.For this type of patient, prevention must be a fundamentally important public and individual health objective”.The National Vaccine Prevention Plan (2017-2019, last in force) already included diabetic patients as a category at risk, as the presence of the disease increases the susceptibility, severity and lethality of a wide range of infectious diseases.Consequently, the need emerges to implement suitable vaccination strategies: from the flu to the anti-pneumococcal, passing through the anti-dTpa (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) and all non-pneumococcal invasive bacterial diseases.Finally, don't forget the anti-Herpes Zoster, the anti-Hepatitis B, the anti-Measles-Mumps-Rubella and anti-Varicella and, finally, the vaccination against Covid-19."The objective of this scientific document - concludes Giovanni Gabutti - is to collect the most recent recommendations and scientific positions on the vaccinations of diabetic patients to prevent infectious diseases in order to encourage the implementation of suitable vaccination strategies through campaigns that will necessarily integrate the various healthcare figures of reference, such as hygienists, diabetologists and general practitioners".A minute with… THE VIDEO ANSWERS of Panorama della santiàA FACE TO YOU, the interviews of Panorama della SanitàInformation & analysis of welfare systemsResponsible Director: Sandro Franco Editorial Director: Mariapia GaravagliaReg. Court of Rome n.429/88 of 23 July 1988KOS Communication and services Srl Via Vitaliano Brancati 44 – 00144 RomeVAT and CF 11541631005 – no.REA RM1310538© 2023 Healthcare Landscape.All Rights Reserved.Powered by Geek Logica srl