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Table 1 Brazilian vaccine calendar for the first year of life, used between years 2005 and 2010

From: Socioeconomic inequalities are still a barrier to full child vaccine coverage in the Brazilian Amazon: a cross-sectional study in Assis Brasil, Acre, Brazil

Vaccine

Number of doses

Age

Recommended coverage by MoH

Bacille Calmet-Guérin

Single

At birth

90%

Hepatitis B

Three

At birth, 30 days and six months of age

95%

Diphtheria-Tetanus- Pertussis-Haemophilus b

Three

At two, four and six months of age

95%

Oral Polio

Three

At two, four and six months of age

95%

Oral Rotavirusa

Two

At two and four months of age

90%

Yellow fever

Single

At nine months of age

100%

Measles-Mumps-Rubella

Single

At twelve months of age

95%

  1. The calendar used between 2005 and 2010 included 3 single-dose vaccines and 4 multiple-dose vaccines. BCG was applied intradermal, Hepatitis B, DTP-Hib, Yellow fever and MMR were applied intramuscular, and OPV and OR were given orally. aOral Rotavirus was included in the calendar in 2006 only. MoH = Ministry of Health.