Latvia
Comments:
(1) Given 0-12 hours after birth only to newborns of HbsAG-positive mothers or to mothers with unknown HbsAg status.
(2) Vaccination to all previously unvaccinated girls and re-vaccination of girls who have only been vaccinated once before.
(3) Given as a combined dT-IPV vaccination.
(4) A course of 3 doses given to all non-vaccinated adolescents.
Additional comments:
Vaccine against rotavirus infection introduced from January, 1, 2011
Vaccine against human papilloma virus introduced from September, 1, 2010
The national vaccination programme
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Age | Vaccine |
| At birth | Hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) (1) |
| 2-5 days | Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine (BCG) |
| 2 months | Diphteria-tetanus-pertussis (DTaP), haemophilus influenza type b vaccinne (Hib), inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), HepB, pneumococcal heptavalent conjugate vaccine (PCV7), rotavirus vaccine (RTV) |
| 4 months | DTaP, Hib, IPV, HepB, PCV7, RTV |
| 6 months | DTaP, Hib, IPV, HepB, PCV7, RTV |
| 12 -15 months | DTaP, Hib, IPV, HepB, PCV7, measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), varicella vaccine (Var) |
| 7 years | DTaP, IPV, MMR |
| 12 years | MMR (2), human papilloma virus vaccine (HPV) |
| 14 years | IPV (3), HepB (4), tetanus-low dose diphteria vaccine (dT) (3) |
| Adults, every 5-10 years | Td boosters |
Source: State Agency "Infectology Centre of Latvia ", 2011
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