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Colombia: child vaccine schedule, from the official source

What one official body publishes for Colombia, quoted and dated, with a link to the source. This page does not say which doses your child still needs.

Colombia: Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social (Colombia)

Document date, as the document prints it: “Actualización julio 2026” (July 2026), no day printed.

Document: Esquema de vacunación de Colombia (memoficha PAI), 'Actualización julio 2026'.

MinSalud (Colombia) vaccination schedule leaflet ('memoficha') 'Esquema de vacunación de Colombia', stamped 'Actualización julio 2026'. The leaflet states it does not replace the lineamientos issued by MinSalud and that, according to the epidemiological context, MinSalud may update the schedule (shortening intervals, including biologicals, etc.).

  • At birth: BCG, single dose (tuberculous meningitis); hepatitis B, newborn dose, preferably in the first 12 hours of life.
  • At 2 months: pentavalente (DPT-Hib-HepB) first dose (note 1: hexavalente replaces pentavalente according to MinSalud lineamientos); inactivated polio (VIP) first dose; rotavirus first dose (note 2: first dose between 2 months and at most 3 months 21 days); pneumococcal first dose.
  • At 4 months: pentavalente second dose; VIP second dose; rotavirus second dose (note 2: second dose up to 11 months 29 days; without the first there is no second dose); pneumococcal second dose.
  • At 6 months: pentavalente third dose; VIP third dose; seasonal influenza first dose (note 3: primary vaccination is 2 doses of the same strain).
  • At 7 months: seasonal influenza second dose.
  • At 9 months: yellow fever single dose, labelled 'por emergencia sanitaria' (note 4: from 9 months in the whole country).
  • At 12 months: measles-mumps-rubella (triple viral) first dose (note 5: 2 doses up to 10 years 11 months 29 days); varicella first dose; pneumococcal booster; hepatitis A single dose.
  • At 18 months: pentavalente first booster; VIP first booster; triple viral second dose.
  • At 5 years: DPT second booster; VIP second booster; varicella booster.
  • At 9 years: dengue first and second dose, staged inclusion in prioritised municipalities according to MinSalud lineamientos.
  • At 9 to 17 years: human papillomavirus (HPV) single dose (note 6: immunocompromised people receive 2 doses at 0 and 6 months).

Source: minsalud.gov.co

A schedule from one country is not meant to be read dose by dose against another’s. Bring your child’s original record to their doctor or nurse.

Records

This page does not cover where to get a vaccination record in Colombia.

Everything on this page was checked against its source on or after 12 Nov 2026. The document date is shown above.

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