| Name of the Vaccine | Protects Against Disease | Dosage (Weeks, Months,Year) |
HepB |
Protects your child from against hepatitis B, a potentially serious disease. Protects other people from the disease because children with hepatitis B usually don’t have symptoms, but they may pass the disease to others without anyone knowing they were infected. Prevents your child from developing liver disease and cancer from hepatitis B. Keeps your child from missing school or child care and you from missing work. | ⊕ At Birth, ⊕ 6 Weeks ⊕ 6 Months |
BCG |
BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease. BCG is used in prevalence of TB to prevent childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary disease. | ⊕ At Birth |
OPV |
OPV vaccine protects against Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease that is caused when a person is infected by the polio virus that invades the nervous system. | ⊕ At Birth ⊕ 6 Weeks ⊕ 10 Weeks ⊕ 14 Weeks ⊕ 15 Months ⊕ 4 Years |
DtaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus & Pertussis) |
DTaP vaccine can prevent diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis. Diphtheria and pertussis spread from person to person. Tetanus enters the body through cuts or wounds. DIPHTHERIA (D) can lead to difficulty breathing, heart failure, paralysis, or death. TETANUS (T) causes painful stiffening of the muscles. Tetanus can lead to serious health problems, including being unable to open the mouth, having trouble swallowing and breathing, or death. PERTUSSIS (aP), also known as “whooping cough,” can cause uncontrollable, violent coughing which makes it hard to breathe, eat, or drink. Pertussis can be extremely serious in babies and young children, causing pneumonia, convulsions, brain damage, or death. In teens and adults, it can cause weight loss, loss of bladder control, passing out, and rib fractures from severe coughing. | ⊕ 6 Weeks ⊕ 10 Weeks ⊕ 14 Weeks ⊕ 16 Months ⊕ 4 Years |
Hib (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B) |
Protects your child from Hib disease, which can cause lifelong disability and be deadly. Protects your child from the most common type of Hib disease, meningitis (an infection of the lining covering the brain and spinal cord). | ⊕ 6 Weeks ⊕ 10 Weeks ⊕ 14 Weeks ⊕ 16 Months |
IPV |
IPV protects children against polioviruses types 1, 2 and 3. IPV use will help maintain immunity to poliovirus type 2. This will help prevent reemergence or reintroduction of wild or vaccine-derived poliovirus. IPV does not cause either VAPP or cVDPV. | ⊕ 6 Weeks ⊕ 10 Weeks ⊕ 14 Weeks ⊕ 16 Months |
PCV |
Protects your child from against potentially serious, and even deadly infections cause by pneumococcal disease, like pneumococcal meningitis (infection of the tissue covering the brain and spinal cord) and pneumonia (lung infection). | ⊕ 6 Weeks ⊕ 10 Weeks ⊕ 14 Weeks ⊕ 15 Months |
RV |
Protects your baby from rotavirus, a potentially serious disease. Protects your baby from developing diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain caused by rotavirus. | ⊕ 6 weeks ⊕ 10 Weeks ⊕ 14 Weeks |
Influenza (H1N1) |
Flu vaccine [H1N1] protects against influenza. Flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and sometimes the lungs. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The best way to prevent flu is by getting a flu vaccine each year. | ⊕ 6 Months ⊕ 7 Months ⊕ 1 Dose every year |
MMR (Measles, Mumps Rubella) |
MMR vaccine protects against three diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella. MEASLES (M) can cause fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes, commonly followed by a rash that covers the whole body. It can lead to seizures (often associated with fever), ear infections, diarrhea, and pneumonia. Rarely, measles can cause brain damage or death. MUMPS (M) can cause fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, loss of appetite, and swollen and tender salivary glands under the ears. It can lead to deafness, swelling of the brain and/or spinal cord covering, painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries, and, very rarely, death. RUBELLA (R) can cause fever, sore throat, rash, headache, and eye irritation. It can cause arthritis in up to half of teenage and adult women. If a woman gets rubella while she is pregnant, she could have a miscarriage or her baby could be born with serious birth defects. | ⊕ 9 Months ⊕ 15 Months |
HepA |
Protects your child from hepatitis A, a potentially serious disease. Protects other people from the disease because children under 6 years old with hepatitis A usually don’t have symptoms, but they often pass the disease to others without anyone knowing they were infected. | ⊕ 12 Months ⊕ 18 Months |
Varicella vaccine (ChickenPox) |
Varicella vaccine (shot) protects against chickenpox. Chickenpox is a disease that causes an itchy rash of blisters and a fever. A person with chickenpox may have as many as 500 blisters. The rash can spread over the whole body. Chickenpox can be serious, even life-threatening, especially in babies, adolescents, adults, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems. | ⊕ 15 Months ⊕ 18 Months |
Japanese Encephalitis (JE) |
Japanese Encephalitis (JE) vaccine reduces the risk for infection. Initial symptoms often include fever, headache, and vomiting. Mental status changes, neurologic symptoms, weakness, and movement disorders might develop over the next few days. Seizures are common, especially among children. | ⊕ 12 Months ⊕ 13 Months |
Typhoid |
Typhoid vaccine can prevent typhoid fever. Typhoid fever can be a life-threatening disease. Symptoms of infection include persistent high fever, weakness, stomach pain, headache, diarrhea or constipation, cough, and loss of appetite. | ⊕ 6 Months+ |
Meningococcal |
Meningococcal vaccine is the best way to prevent meningococcal disease. Meningococcal disease is a serious bacterial illness and the leading MProtects against the bacteria that cause meningococcal disease. Protects your child from infections of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, as well as bloodstream infections.ore | ⊕ 2 Years |
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) (Only For Girls-Cervical Cancer) |
HPV (Only For Girls-Cervical Cancer) vaccine is the best prevention against Human Papillomavirus. Protects against infections that can lead to six types of cancer. Protects against abnormal cells that can lead to cancer (precancers) and the lasting effects of testing and treatment for these precancers. | ⊕ 9 Years |
Tdap/TD |
The Tdap vaccine protects against three serious diseases caused by bacteria – against tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough | ⊕ 10 years |
TD |
Td vaccine can prevent tetanus and diphtheria. | ⊕ 16 Years |