Table 1.

Schedule of the Malawi EPI

Vaccine	Description and number of antigens	Schedule	Comments
Primary infant and adolescent vaccination schedule
BCG	Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (dose)	At birth or first contact
OPV0	Oral polio vaccine 0 (dose)	At birth to 2 weeks
Rotavirus	Rotavirus vaccine (two doses)	6 and 10 weeks
Pentavalent	Diphtheria and tetanus and pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae and hepatitis B (three doses)	6, 10 and 14 weeks
OPV	Oral polio vaccine (three doses)	6, 10 and 14 weeks
Pneumo_conj	Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (three doses)	6, 10 and 14 weeks
MV	Malaria vaccine/RTS,S/AS01 (four doses)	5, 6, 7 and 22 months
Measles	Measles vaccine (two doses)	9 and 15 months
MR	Measles and rubella vaccine (two doses)	9 and 15 months	From July 2017
HPV	Human papillomavirus vaccine (two doses)	10 y	Girls ages 9–14 y
Adult vaccination schedule
TT	Tetanus toxoid vaccine	First contact; +1 and +6 months; +1 and +1 y	Pregnant women