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Source-checked explainers on the vaccine card in Bangladesh, the childhood EPI schedule and the adult vaccines and boosters to discuss with your doctor.
A vaccination certificate is only one part of a family's health record. Parents keep an EPI card for each child, adults collect booster doses over the years, and travellers sometimes need an international certificate for a specific vaccine. This hub explains those records and the vaccination programmes behind them in clear, careful language, so that you can have better-informed conversations with health workers and doctors.
Every guide in this section is written by our public-health writer and fact-checked by our health content editor against DGHS, WHO and UNICEF guidance. Our guides are not reviewed by a medical professional, and nothing here is medical advice for you personally. Vaccine schedules are set and updated by national health authorities, and the right choice for an individual depends on age, health, pregnancy, travel and work. Please talk to a qualified health professional, your local EPI centre or community clinic before making decisions.
Our explainer on the vaccine card in Bangladesh untangles the different documents people call a "vaccine card": the Surokkha registration card, the dose record kept at a centre, the digital certificate, the childhood EPI card and the international yellow card. It includes a comparison table and practical advice on storing each one safely.
The parent's guide to the national childhood immunization schedule sets out the typical EPI timeline, from BCG at birth to measles-rubella doses in the second year, and explains what to do if a dose was missed. The adult vaccinations guide looks at the vaccines grown-ups commonly discuss with their doctors, including boosters, hepatitis B, influenza, typhoid and rabies care after an animal bite, and suggests questions to bring to your appointment.
We rely on the Directorate General of Health Services, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and other recognised public-health bodies, and we avoid precise figures unless they are well established. Where guidance differs or is uncertain, we say so. If you notice something that looks out of date, email us and we will check it against current sources. See our review methodology for details.
Bangladeshi families can end up with several vaccination documents. We explain what each one is, when you get it, what it is used for and how to keep it safe.
What the Expanded Programme on Immunization offers children in Bangladesh, when each vaccine is usually given, and how parents can keep track of doses with the EPI card.
Vaccines are not only for children. A plain-English overview of the vaccines adults in Bangladesh commonly talk about with their doctor, and how to keep your records in order.
