How to book in Hong Kong
Babies and children up to 5 are vaccinated free at Maternal and Child Health Centres (MCHCs) - register your newborn at your nearest centre. Primary school vaccines are given at school by DH School Immunisation Teams. Private doctors also give the programme vaccines and optional extras.
Family Health Service - Maternal and Child Health CentresTap any milestone to expand it. Each vaccine explains what it is, the diseases it prevents, and why it is given at that age.
NewbornNewborn2 vaccines
Given soon after birth. Protects babies against the most serious forms of TB.
Given at birth to prevent mother-to-baby spread of hepatitis B.
1 monthNewborn1 vaccine
Second hepatitis B dose.
2 monthsNewborn2 vaccines
One injection against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and polio.
Protects against pneumococcus. Hong Kong switched to PCV15 because it gives stronger protection against serotype 3, a major local cause of serious pneumococcal disease.
4 monthsNewborn2 vaccines
Second 4-in-1 dose.
Second pneumococcal dose.
6 monthsInfant2 vaccines
Third 4-in-1 dose, completing the baby course.
Third hepatitis B dose, completing the course.
12 monthsToddler3 vaccines
First measles, mumps and rubella dose.
First chickenpox dose.
The pneumococcal booster that completes the course.
18 monthsToddler2 vaccines
Booster of the 4-in-1.
One combined injection giving the second dose of MMR and chickenpox (for children born on or after 1 July 2018).
Primary 1 (around 6 years, school)Child1 vaccine
A booster given at school by the DH School Immunisation Team.
Primary 5 (around 10 years, girls)Child1 vaccine
Given at school to girls. Protects against the HPV types behind most cervical cancers.
Primary 6 (around 11 years, school)Teen2 vaccines
A lower-dose diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough and polio booster for older children.
Second HPV dose, completing the course.
Given in addition to the routine schedule, for children who meet certain criteria.
When: Every year
Who: Free or subsidised for children under 18 through the government seasonal flu programmes, including school outreach. Two doses in the first season for children under 9.
When: From 6 weeks
Who: Not in the HKCIP but available at private clinics. Ask your family doctor about the benefits and costs.
When: Various ages
Who: Available privately for personal protection or travel - discuss with your family doctor.
When: Primary 1
Who: Children born between 1 January 2013 and 30 June 2018 got their second MMR and chickenpox dose as MMRV in Primary 1 instead of at 18 months.
How Hong Kong compares with other countries for each vaccine, and the side effects that are normal.
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About the Hong Kong schedule
Hong Kong's childhood vaccines follow the Hong Kong Childhood Immunisation Programme (HKCIP), recommended by the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the Centre for Health Protection. Vaccines in the programme are free for eligible children.
Babies get BCG and hepatitis B at birth, then vaccines at 1, 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months at a Maternal and Child Health Centre. Hong Kong uses a 4-in-1 (DTaP-IPV) rather than a 6-in-1, with hepatitis B given separately. Since August 2024 the pneumococcal vaccine is PCV15. School teams give boosters in Primary 1 and 6, and girls get the 9-valent HPV vaccine in Primary 5 and 6.
If you leave Hong Kong, take your child's immunisation record and arrange the remaining doses at your destination.
How Hong Kong compares
Hong Kong's routine schedule protects against 12 diseases across 10 vaccination ages, 5 of them in the first year. By age 2 a child has had about 14 vaccine doses.
Less common elsewhere: Hong Kong routinely vaccinates against Tuberculosis (BCG), which fewer than half of the other 15 countries on this site include for every child.
Not routine here: Hib; Rotavirus (offered to some children - see the extra vaccines above); Meningococcal C; Meningococcal A, W, Y are routine in most of the other countries we cover but not on Hong Kong's schedule for every child.
Compare Hong Kong with any other country, disease by disease.
Behind schedule or new to Hong Kong? Almost every dose still counts, and your clinic can plan a catch-up - see common questions.
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