Adult Vaccinations
Apart from travel vaccines, there are also a number of other vaccines which are recommended for use in adults.
*Note that specific contraindications to vaccination may apply. Always check with your primary care physician before receiving the vaccines mentioned.
In general, these are the vaccines we would consider for adults in various circumstances:
available vaccines
| Category | Vaccine | Remarks |
| Younger adults ( if not previously vaccinated ) | HPV vaccine (against cervical cancer and genital warts) | 3 doses required (at 0, 2 and 6 months) |
| Varicella (chicken pox) | 2 doses required (2 months apart) | |
| 50 years old and above | Zoster (shingles) | Only 1 dose is required |
| Pneumococcal 13-valent (pneumonia) | 1 dose is required | |
| 65 years old and above | Zoster (shingles) – if not done earlier | Only 1 dose is required |
| Pneumococcal (pneumonia) | 1 dose of 13-valent, followed by 1 dose of 23-valent | |
| Influenza (flu) | 1 dose every year | |
| Mothers-to-be – before trying for a child | Varicella (chicken pox) | 2 doses, 2 months apart |
| MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) | If not immune | |
| Hepatitis B | If not immune (3 doses required) | |
| Caretakers of newborns or infants (helps to reduce risk of carrying and spreading the infection to newborns or infants) | Pertussis (whooping cough or ‘hundred day cough’) | 1 dose required |
| Influenza (flu) | 1 dose every year | |
| Persons with potentially compromised immune systems such as those with: • Chronic heart, lung, liver or kidney disease • Poorly controlled diabetes • Patients receiving cancer treatments or long-term steroid therapy • Persons living with HIV • Patients with no spleen | Pneumococcal (pneumonia) | 1 dose with 13-valent |
| Influenza (flu) | 1 dose annually |
