Table 2.

WHO and ACIP recommendations for pneumococcal vaccination 2012

Pneumococcal Vaccination
WHO recommendations	ACIP recommendations
Healthy elderly (> 65 yrs. of age), particularly those living in institutions	All persons aged 65 years or more
Patients with chronic organ failure
Heart, lung, liver or kidney disease, diabetes mellitus and alcoholism	Chronic heart/lung/liver/kidney disease, DM and alcoholism
Children > 2 yrs. old at high risk for disease (splenectomised children and sickle-cell disease)	Patients with leukaemia/lymphoma/multiple myeloma
Patients with immunodeficiencies particularly those with functional or anatomical asplenia	Congenital/acquired immunodeficiencies, congenital/acquired asplenia; splenic dysfunction or splenectomy; organ transplantation or diseases requiring immunosuppressive drugs
Prevention of subsequent pneumococcal infection in patients recovering from proven or assumed pneumococcal pneumonia	Nephrotic syndrome
	HIV infection
	Others including: cochlear implants, CSF leaks and cigarette smoking