Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Immunizations in children and adolescents" and "Society guideline links: Seasonal influenza vaccination" and "Society guideline links: Immunizations in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients" and "Society guideline links: Immunizations in patients with HIV" and "Society guideline links: Immunizations in solid organ transplant recipients" and "Society guideline links: Hepatitis B vaccination".)

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Vaccine position papers

●WHO: Recommendations for routine immunization – Summary tables (2020)

Canada

●National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI): Recommendations, statements and updates

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Canadian immunization guide

●PHAC: Provincial and territorial routine vaccination programs for healthy, previously immunized adults (2019)

●Vaccination guidelines for patients with immune-mediated disorders taking immunosuppressive therapies (2019)

●Canadian Medical Association (CMA): Reducing pain during vaccine injections – Clinical practice guideline (2015)

United States

●Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): General best practice guidelines for immunization

●ACIP: Vaccine guidelines and recommendations for emergency situations

●ACIP: Vaccine-specific recommendations

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Immunization for women

●National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD): Standards for adult immunization practice

●ACIP: Recommended adult immunization schedule for ages 19 years or older, United States (2021)

●NCIRD: Guidelines for vaccinating pregnant women (2016)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guideline for vaccination of the immunocompromised host (2013)

●ACIP: Recommendations on immunization of health-care personnel (2011)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Vaccine schedule in all countries of the European Union

●ECDC: Guidance on varicella vaccination in the European Union (2015)

●ECDC: Guidance on introduction of HPV vaccines in European Union countries, update (2012)

United Kingdom

●Public Health England (PHE): The Green Book – Immunisation against infectious disease

●PHE: Complete routine immunisation schedule (2014, updated 2018)

●PHE: Guidance on vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status (2013, updated 2017)

India

●Indian Medical Association (IMA): Vaccination chart and immunisation guideline

Australia-New Zealand

●Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI): The Australian Immunisation Handbook