Table 1.
Expanded Programme on Immunisation schedule in South Africa
| Age of child | Vaccines scheduled |
| At birth | Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) |
| Oral polio vaccine (OPV) (0) | |
| 6 weeks | OPV (1) |
| Rotavirus vaccine (RV) (1) | |
| Diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis vaccine + inactivated polio vaccine + Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine + hepatitis B vaccine combined (DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB) (1) | |
| Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) (1) | |
| 10 weeks | DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB (2) |
| 14 weeks | RV (2) |
| DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB (3) | |
| PCV (2) | |
| 6 months | Measles vaccine (1) |
| 9 months | PCV (3) |
| 12 months | Measles vaccine (2) |
| 18 months | DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB (4) |
| 6 years | Tetanus and reduced-strength diphtheria vaccine (Td) vaccine |
| ≥9 years | Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (1 and 2; 6 months apart) |
| 12 years | Td vaccine |