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Vaccines available in Sri Lanka

Vaccine	Disease/s prevent	Type	Age	Details
BCG Bacillus Calmette-Guérin	Tuberculosis	Live attenuated	At birth	Vaccines given under the National Immunization Programme
Pentavalent (DTP-HepB-Hib)	Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus Hepatitis B Haemophilus influenza-B	Toxoid Live attenuated Toxoid Killed Conjugate	2,4,6 m
Triple (DTP)	Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus	Toxoid Live attenuated Toxoid	18m
Oral Polio vaccine (OPV)	Poliomyelitis	Live attenuated	2,4,6 18 m & 5y
Measles vaccine	Measles	Live attenuated	9 m
Measles and Rubella (MR)	Measles and Rubella	Live attenuated	3 y
Hepatitis A	Hepatitis A	Killed		Other
Inactivated Polio vaccine (IPV)	Poliomyelitis	Killed	2,4,6 18 m & 5y
Rotavirus vaccine	Rotavirus	Live attenuated
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine	Pneumonia	Conjugate	Before 2 years