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 Abbreviations
The Czech Childhood Vaccination Schedule
DTaP Hib IPV HepB MMR BCG T
4 days-6 weeks Yes
13 weeks1 Yes Yes Yes Yes
17 weeks-1 year2 Yes Yes Yes Yes
21 weeks-1 year3 Yes Yes Yes Yes
11 months 1 week-18 months4 Yes Yes Yes Yes
15 months Yes
16-20 months     Yes5
21-25 months6 Yes
5 years Yes  
10 years   Yes
11 years Yes7
12 years   Yes8
14 years Yes9
The Czech Childhood Vaccination Schedule as on 18 September 2007
1 First dose of DTaP-Hib-HepB-IPV given as hexavalent vaccine at 13 weeks of age.
2 Second dose of DTaP-Hib-HepB-IPV given as hexavalent vaccine at least one month after the first dose within the first year of life.
3 Third dose of DTaP-Hib-HepB-IPV given as hexavalent vaccine at least one month after the second dose within the first year of life.
4 Fourth dose of DTaP-Hib-HepB-IPV given as hexavalent vaccine 6 months after the third dose and by the end of 18 months of age.
5 BCG is recommended if tuberculin skin test (Purified Protein Derivative) is negative, at least 1 month after the first MMR dose.
6 Second dose of MMR given 6-10 months after first MMR dose.
7 Re-vaccination of tuberculin negative children.
8 Three doses of HepB vaccination are given to those previously unvaccinated children in 0-1-6 month schedule.
9 Re-vaccination recommended every 10-15 years after the age of 14.
Historic changes
1969: Measles vaccination introduced into the Czechoslovakian childhood vaccination schedule to all children at 12 months of age.
1982: Measles – two dose vaccination regime introduced to children at 15 months of age and 6-10 months after the first dose.
1982: Rubella vaccination introduced into the Czechoslovakian childhood vaccination schedule to all girls aged 12 years.
1986: Rubella vaccination introduced into the Czechoslovakian childhood vaccination schedule to all children aged 2 years.
1987: Mumps vaccination introduced into the Czechoslovakian childhood vaccination schedule to all children aged 15 months.
2001:Hib vaccination introduced into the Czech childhood vaccination schedule to all children in the first year of life.
2001: HepB vaccination introduced into the Czech childhood vaccination schedule to all children in the first year of life.
2007: IPV replaced OPV in the first year of life.
2007: Acellular pertussis vaccine (aP) replaced the whole-cell vaccine (wP) in the first year of life.

This summary chart is adapted from the Immunisation Guidelines for the Czech Republic issued by the Ministry of Health. Information on the childhood vaccination schedule in the Czech Republic may be accessed through the National Institute of Public Health website: in Czech and in English.