Vaccine Scheduler
Romania: Recommended vaccinations
| General recommendation | |
| Recommendation for specific groups only | |
| Catch-up (e.g. if previous doses missed) | |
| Vaccination not funded by the National Health system | |
| Mandatory vaccination |
| Years | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 26 | 27 | 45 | 64 | ≥ 65 | |
| Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) | COVID-19 | |||||
| pertussis1 | acp4 | |||||
| pneumococcal disease2 | PCV13/PCV15 + PPSV23 or PCV20 | PCV13 or PCV15 or PCV20 or PPSV23 | ||||
| human papillomavirus infection | HPV9 (F/M) | HPV9(F) | ||||
| influenza3 | IIV3/IIV4/LAIV | IIV3/IIV4/QIV-HD5 | ||||
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Footnotes:
- dTap is also recommended and reimbursed as a booster every 10 years from the previous dose in adults and to bone marrow transplant recipients and their family contacts who do not have specific detectable antibodies.
- Recommended and reimbursed for: children under 19 years old, born before 1 October 2017; people aged between 19 and 65 years, suffering of asplenia, chronic diseases or immunosuppressive diseases and specialized medical and healthcare personnel and auxiliary medical staff.
- For risk groups established by the World Health Organization. Also recommended and reimbursed for specialized medical and healthcare personnel and auxiliary medical staff. IIV is also recommended during pregnancy.
- Vaccination during pregnancy
- For adults aged 45–65 years without chronic medical conditions, the influenza vaccines are 50% reimbursed. For those aged 65 years and above the vaccine is fully reimbursed.
More information available at:
http://www.cnscbt.ro/index.php/calendarul-national-de-vaccinare http://desprevaccin.ro/ https://www.colegfarm.ro/userfiles/file/Anexa%20la%20OMS%20964_2022%20_MO-Partea-I-nr.-320Bis.pdf https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/274488
MAJOR HISTORICAL CHANGES
Measles, mumps, rubella:
1979: Measles vaccine was introduced into national children vaccination schedule for children 9-11 months of age.
1994: Second measles vaccine dose was introduced into national children vaccination schedule for children 6-7 years of age (first school grade).
2002: 1st April first measles vaccine dose was moved from 9-11 month to 12-15 months to prepare for MMR introduction.
2003: Rubella vaccination was introduced into national children vaccination schedule for girls aged 14-15 years.
2004: MMR 1 was introduced into national children vaccination schedule for children at 12-15 month of age.
2005: October, MMR 2 was introduced into national children vaccination schedule for children at 6-7 years of age (first school grade).
2015: Change to the primary infant series. Moving to a 2, 4 and 11 months schedule for DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB instead of a 2,4,6 and 12 month schedule. introduction of hexavalent vaccines.
Other vaccines:
2008: From October 2008, DTaP replaced DTwP and IPV replaced OPV. Both DTaP and IPV receommended as a combined quadrivalent vaccine at 2, 4 and 6 months. DTaP recommended at 4 years of age replaced DTwP given at 30-35 months of age.
2010: From January 2010, the quadrivalent vaccine DTPa-IPV was replaced by the pentavalent vaccine DTPa-IPV-HibV.
Date of last update: 16 Jan. 2024