National Immunization Programs(Report 2011)

Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective strategies in the fight against communicable disease. Immunizations have been available since 1948, and now the Taiwan government provides free immunizations to children, including BCG, 5-in-1 (diphtheria and tetanus toxoid with acellular pertussis, haemophilus influenzae type b, and inactivated polio, DTaP-Hib-IPV), oral polio vaccine, hepatitis B, varicella, measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), Japanese encephalitis, tetanus, diphtheria toxoids, acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) and influenza. Nine kinds of vaccines are available to Taiwanese children by 6 years of age. (The current immunization schedule is shown in the table below.