2025 Recommended Immunization Schedules

2025 Recommended Immunization Schedules Now Online

The schedules summarize final recommendations previously made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and made official by the CDC director. The 2025 schedules were approved by ACIP and adopted by the CDC Director on October 24, 2024, and subsequently approved by several professional organizations. CDC’s goal is for the schedules to provide the public, health care providers, and programs with clear, concise, and up-to-date immunization information. These tools help ensure immunizations are timely, effective, and given safely.

Healthcare Provider Immunization Schedules  Schedule Changes & Guidance Simplified Immunization Schedules

Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years, U.S., 2025   This schedule includes the age-based routine vaccination schedule for children and teens and the approved catch-up immunization schedule for people age 4 months through 18 years who start vaccination late or who are more than one month behind. Essential explanatory footnotes are also included.

Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years and Older, U.S., 2025 This schedule for adult vaccination provides recommendations by age group as well as by medical condition, essential footnotes, and a summary of contraindications and precautions for adult vaccine use.

The Simplified Immunization Schedules, also known as “easy to read” or “audience friendly” schedules, are designed to help patients and families better understand recommendations, immunizations, and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Infants and Children (Birth to 6 Years) Older Children and Teens (7 to 18 Years) Recommended Vaccinations for Adults

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Keeping up momentum after U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week

Continue to combat antimicrobial resistance throughout the year

What You Can Do to Help Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

Even though U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) just ended, our work to combat antimicrobial resistance does not stop. We need your help to keep the momentum going!

Why it matters

In July 2024, CDC published Antimicrobial Resistance Threats in the United States, 2021-2022. These new data show that six bacterial antimicrobial-resistant hospital-onset infections increased by a combined 20% during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period, peaking in 2021, and remaining above pre-pandemic levels in 2022. In addition, the number of reported clinical cases of C. auris—a type of yeast that can spread in healthcare facilities, is often resistant to antifungal medications, and can cause severe illness—increased nearly five-fold from 2019 to 2022. These data show that additional action is critical to slow the spread and impact of antimicrobial resistance (AR). From travelers, animal owners, and caregivers to patients and healthcare providers, we all have a role to play to combat antimicrobial resistance.

What actions can you take to help combat antimicrobial resistance? Ask your healthcare provider or veterinarian about the best treatment when you, your family, or an animal is sick. Antibiotics and antifungals aren’t always the answer. Keep your hands clean by washing or using hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol to help stop germs from spreading. Stay up to date on recommended vaccines to help prevent infections, slow antimicrobial resistance, and reduce antibiotic and antifungal use. Prepare food safely to avoid foodborne infections. Clean your hands, utensils, and surfaces. Separate raw meat from other foods. Cook foods to safe temperatures. Chill foods promptly. Know about (and use!) safer sex options, such as using condoms the right way every time you have sex, to lower your risk of getting a drug-resistant sexually transmitted infection. What can healthcare providers do to combat antimicrobial resistance?  Follow infection prevention and control guidelines, including screening at-risk patients when indicated. Improve antibiotic and antifungal prescribing by following clinical and treatment guidelines. Be aware of infections and antimicrobial resistance trends in your facility and community. Inform patients and families if they have an antimicrobial-resistant infection, as well as sexual partners when appropriate. Know when to report cases and submit resistant isolates to the health department to identify unusual resistance or treatment failures. *Use the Gonorrhea Treatment Failure Consultation Form to report gonorrhea cephalosporin treatment failure or other concerning lab results*. Ensure your patients receive recommended vaccines. Educate your patients and their families about preventing the spread of germs and infections, keeping scrapes and wounds clean, managing chronic conditions, seeking medical care when an infection is not getting better, and understanding when antibiotics and antifungals are needed. Check out some of the resources we shared during USAAW! Be Antibiotics Aware educational materials for patients/families and healthcare professionals. You can order FREE print resources by calling 1-800-CDC-INFO or visiting CDC-Publications on Demand. Select “Antibiotic Use” from the Program drop-down menu and click “Apply” to view all available publications.   Antibiotic Stewardship Resource Bundles for healthcare professionals, partner organizations, health departments, and professional societies. New Safe Healthcare blogs on CDC and global partners committing to collective action to combat antimicrobial resistance and dentists improving patient safety through optimizing antibiotic prescribing. A new global story on hospitals in India that are using a powerful new laboratory tool to combat dangerous AR. Updates on antibiotic use and stewardship in the U.S. We look forward to continuing this critical work with you to raise awareness about appropriate antibiotic and antifungal prescribing and use and the threat of antimicrobial resistance. Together, we can combat antimicrobial resistance.

	Even though U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week just ended, our work to improve #antibiotic and #antifungal prescribing & use continue. We all have a role to play to combat #AntimicrobialResistance. https://bit.ly/3L8mSu1

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Register today for AMR Exchange webinar

On December 12 learn how CDC & others will move from commitment into action

It’s Time for Action! Global partners discuss how to meet goals from the UNGA High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance political declaration

Join us Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 11 a.m. EST for CDC’s next AMR Exchange, It’s Time for Action: Working Together to Achieve the Targets of the 2024 UNGA High-level Meeting on AMR Political Declaration. In late September, global leaders met in New York City for the second United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Meeting (HLM) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). The political declaration from the HLM identifies specific commitments and targets for all countries and AMR stakeholders. Join the AMR Exchange to hear from CDC and a panel of experts about: Actionable commitments and targets from the UNGA HLM political declaration. What governmental and non-governmental partners are doing to turn political commitment into public health action. Approaches to strengthen One Health collaboration across the globe.

Taking part in the conversation are experts from CDC, Gallup, World Health Organization Task Force of AMR Survivors, and others whose work in the United States and around the world is helping transform how we combat antimicrobial resistance threats.

Don’t forget to follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @CDC_AR. You can watch previous AMR Exchange webinars if you missed any.

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NEW CDC PLACES New Look Website!

November 21, 2024

Celebrate Rural Health Day with the New Look of PLACES Website

This National Rural Health Day, visit the newly updated PLACES website to explore local health data and the factors in your community that influence health. PLACES provides first-of-its-kind chronic disease and other health-related data for all U.S. counties, incorporated and census-designated places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). Its estimates go down to the neighborhood level, making it a valuable source of population health data for many small and rural communities.

PLACES provides data across 49 chronic disease and other health-related measures. The recent release includes seven new non-medical factors that affect health. The added measures are:    Social isolation. Received food stamps. Food insecurity.   Housing insecurity. Threat of utility shut-off.   Transportation barriers. Lack of social and emotional support.   Available for 39 states and the District of Columbia, the new measures can help rural public health and community planners better identify overlapping health and social needs, as well as areas that lack access to resources or services that are needed for health.   For example, in rural areas where health data can be hard to find, PLACES can be used to identify communities with high rates of chronic disease, along with factors like food and housing insecurity—highlighting areas in need of public health, social, and/or structural solutions.  Explore the updated PLACES data and promote it with your rural partners this National Rural Health Day and beyond.  Click Here to Email Us!

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Announcing NEW Awardees for Arthritis Management and Well-Being Research Network

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November Arthritis Newsletter	cdc.gov/arthritis

Announcing NEW Arthritis Management and Well-Being Research Network Awardees

The CDC Arthritis Management and Well-Being Program is providing funding to support a new research network of university-based Prevention Research Centers (PRC) that will focus on strengthening research and evaluation to improve arthritis management and outcomes. The research network, titled the Arthritis Management and Well-Being Research Network, or AMWRN, will also create generalizable knowledge and tools to reduce the burden of arthritis. We are pleased to announce our three awardees below. Current projects focus on physical activity and intervention research to help improve arthritis management and outcomes.

Awardee: University of North Carolina, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Title: Establishing a Collaborating Center for Osteoarthritis (OA) Care Tools PLUS (OACareTools Primary Care-Led Usability & Scalability Study) and a Coordinating Center for an Arthritis Management & Well-Being Research Network Project Summary: The aims of this project are two-fold:     1) Assess the effectiveness of an intervention designed to assist healthcare providers in conducting physical activity screening, counseling, and referrals to arthritis-appropriate, evidence-based interventions (AAEBIs).     2) Foster collaboration among AMWRN recipients through coordination of research efforts, knowledge sharing, and development of joint initiatives.

Awardee: University of South Carolina Prevention Research Center Title: Examination of the Dose Response Relationship Between Physical Activity and Arthritis-Attributable Outcomes Project Summary: The aims of this study are two-fold:      1) Use a popular community-based, evidence-based physical activity intervention for adults with arthritis (Walk With Ease) to study the effect of 3 doses of walking/physical activity (45 min/week, 90 min/week, and 150 min/week) on arthritis outcomes (physical function, pain, health-related quality of life, and depression symptoms).     2) Explore differences across the three groups in their self-reported momentary experiences of fatigue, pain, depressive symptoms, confidence, and happiness when engaging in physical activity.

Awardee: Mountain West Prevention Research Center at University of Utah Title: The Mountain West Arthritis Secondary Prevention Program Project Summary: This project has three aims:    1) Evaluate text messaging strategies to reach adults with osteoarthritis and enroll them in physical activity counseling.    2) Evaluate strategies to engage adults enrolled in the AAEBI, Walk with Ease (WWE).    3) Evaluate program outcomes for effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance for adults enrolled in physical activity counseling and WWE. For more information on these and other PRC projects, visit PRC Special Interest Projects.

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