The meeting of the Republican immunologic commission of Tatarstan Republic Health Ministry with the reports about the modern approaches to vaccine prevention of pneumococcal infection at high-risk patient groups has taken place today. Leading experts in epidemiology, pediatrics, immunology, pulmonology took part in the meeting. Pressing questions of treatments and prophylaxes of extra hospital pneumonia and the modern approaches to specific immuno-prophylaxis of pneumococcal infection have been discussed during the meeting.