Schedule Key:          
          
 
Birth 2 mths 4 mths 6 mths 12 mths 18 mths 4 yrs 10 - 13 15 -17 50 + 65 +
The Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule
from The Australian Immunisation Handbook, 8th edition.
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Influenza*
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Monovalent hepatitis B vaccine
(either Hep B** or Hep B***)
Hepatitis B vaccine given as either monovalent vaccine or in combination with DTPa, at 2, 4 and 6 months.
Hepatitis B vaccine in combination with Hib (PRO-OMP), at 2, 4 and 12 months.
Hepatitis B vaccine for 10-13 year olds who have not received a primary course.
PRP-T, HbOC (non-Indigenous children).
Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (Indigenous children only), given between 18 months & 2 years.
National Indigenous Pneumococcal and influenze Immunisation Program.
For children with a negative history of varicella (chicken pox) disease or vaccination.
VACCINE KEY:
Hep B - Hepatitis B
DTPa - Diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis infant/child formulation
dTpa - Adult/adolescent formulation.
Hib - Haemophilus influenza type b vaccine PRP-OMP, PRP-T, HbOC (as monovalent or in combination)
IPV - Inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine (in combination)
MMR - Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine
VZV - Varicella-zoster vaccine (chicken pox).
7vPCV - 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
23vPPV - 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
MenCCV - Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine
Influenza - Influenza vaccine
 dT - Adult diphtheria-tetanus vaccine.