Editing BCG vaccine (section)

==Usage==
The person's age and the frequency with which BCG is given have always varied from country to country. The WHO recommends childhood BCG for all countries with a high incidence of tuberculosis and/or high leprosy burden.<ref name="WHO2018" /> This is a partial list of historic and active BCG practices around the globe. A complete atlas of past and present practice has been generated.<ref name=BCGA/> As of 2022, 155 countries offer the BCG vaccine in their schedule.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kaur G, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Mwinnyaa G, Gacic-Dobo M, Francis L, Grevendonk J, Sodha SV, Sugerman C, Wallace A | title = Routine Vaccination Coverage - Worldwide, 2022 | journal = MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | volume = 72 | issue = 43 | pages = 1155–1161 | date = October 2023 | pmid = 37883326 | pmc = 10602616 | doi = 10.15585/mmwr.mm7243a1 | doi-access = free | url = https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/pdfs/mm7243a1-H.pdf | access-date = 5 September 2024 | archive-date = 5 September 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240905050740/https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/pdfs/mm7243a1-H.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

===Americas===
* Brazil introduced universal BCG immunization in 1967–1968, and the practice continues until now. According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals in the health sector and people close to patients with tuberculosis or [[leprosy]].{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
* Canadian Indigenous communities receive the BCG vaccine,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bacille Calmette–Guerin (BCG) Information for Health Professionals |url=https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/information-for-healthcare-professionals/communicable-disease-info-for-health-professionals/tuberculosis-information-for-health-professionals/bacille-calmette-guerin-bcg-information-for-health-professionals/ |website=toronto.ca |access-date=8 April 2020 |date=January 2020 |archive-date=6 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506111602/https://www.toronto.ca/community-people/health-wellness-care/information-for-healthcare-professionals/communicable-disease-info-for-health-professionals/tuberculosis-information-for-health-professionals/bacille-calmette-guerin-bcg-information-for-health-professionals/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and in the province of Quebec the vaccine was offered to children until the mid-70s.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rousseau MC, Conus F, Kâ K, El-Zein M, Parent MÉ, Menzies D | title = Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination patterns in the province of Québec, Canada, 1956-1974 | journal = Vaccine | volume = 35 | issue = 36 | pages = 4777–4784 | date = August 2017 | pmid = 28705514 | doi = 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.06.064 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
* Most countries in Central and South America have universal BCG immunizations,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.siise.gob.ec/siiseweb/PageWebs/SALUD/ficsal_S21.htm |title=Ficha metodológica |access-date=12 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152751/http://www.siise.gob.ec/siiseweb/PageWebs/SALUD/ficsal_S21.htm |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> as does Mexico.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gob.mx/salud/en/articulos/esquema-de-vacunacion |title=Esquema de Vacunación |access-date=28 May 2024 |archive-date=25 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725192848/https://www.gob.mx/salud/en/articulos/esquema-de-vacunacion |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The United States has never used mass immunization of BCG due to the rarity of tuberculosis in the US, relying instead on the detection and treatment of [[latent tuberculosis]].<ref name="CDC BCG">{{cite web | title=Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Vaccine for Tuberculosis | website=Tuberculosis (TB) | date=11 July 2024 | url=https://www.cdc.gov/tb/hcp/vaccines/ | access-date=5 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="CDC Tuberculosis">{{cite web | title=Tuberculosis Vaccine | website=Tuberculosis (TB) | date=11 July 2024 | url=https://www.cdc.gov/tb/vaccines/ | access-date=5 September 2024 | archive-date=5 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905041249/https://www.cdc.gov/tb/vaccines/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

===Europe===
{|class="wikitable"
|+BCG vaccine in Europe
!Country
!Mandatory now
!Mandatory in the past
!Years vaccine was mandatory
|-

| {{flaglist|Austria}}<ref name=BCGA>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bcgatlas.org/|title=Database of Global BCG Vaccination Policies and Practices|publisher=The BCG World Atlas|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=12 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612044328/http://www.bcgatlas.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1952–1990
|-

| {{flaglist|Armenia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|?–present (reintroduced in 1998)
|-

| {{flaglist|Belgium}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/tuberculosis/prevention|title=Prevention|website=sciensano.be|access-date=8 April 2020|archive-date=6 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506074815/https://www.sciensano.be/en/health-topics/tuberculosis/prevention|url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{na}}
|<small>N/A</small>
|-

| {{flaglist|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1950–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Bulgaria}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mh.government.bg/bg/informaciya-za-grazhdani/imunizacii/|title=Задължителни и препоръчителни имунизации|trans-title=Mandatory and recommended immunizations|website=mh.government.bg|access-date=11 April 2020|archive-date=11 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411140416/http://www.mh.government.bg/bg/informaciya-za-grazhdani/imunizacii/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1951–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Croatia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1948–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Czech Republic}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.szu.cz/uploads/documents/CeM/Zpravy_EM/23_2014/05_kveten/182_vakcinacni_kmen.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506041853/http://www.szu.cz/uploads/documents/CeM/Zpravy_EM/23_2014/05_kveten/182_vakcinacni_kmen.pdf |archive-date=6 May 2020 |url-status=live |title=Kopie – cem05_14.p65 |access-date=11 April 2020}}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1953–2010
|-

| {{flaglist|Denmark}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rieckmann A, Villumsen M, Sørup S, Haugaard LK, Ravn H, Roth A, Baker JL, Benn CS, Aaby P | title = Vaccinations against smallpox and tuberculosis are associated with better long-term survival: a Danish case-cohort study 1971-2010 | journal = International Journal of Epidemiology | volume = 46 | issue = 2 | pages = 695–705 | date = April 2017 | pmid = 27380797 | pmc = 5837789 | doi = 10.1093/ije/dyw120 | s2cid = 3792173 }}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1946–1986
|-

| {{flaglist|Estonia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|?–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Finland}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web |title=THL |url=https://thl.fi/fi/web/infektiotaudit-ja-rokotukset/rokotteet-a-o/bcg-eli-tuberkuloosirokote |website=BCG- eli tuberkuloosirokote |publisher=THL |access-date=16 April 2020 |archive-date=23 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423180931/https://thl.fi/fi/web/infektiotaudit-ja-rokotukset/rokotteet-a-o/bcg-eli-tuberkuloosirokote |url-status=live }}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1941–2006
|-

| {{flaglist|France}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>Loi n° 50-7 du 5 janvier 1950</ref><ref>décret n° 2007-1111 du 17 juillet 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hcsp.fr/docspdf/avisrapports/hcspa20100305_BCG.pdf |title=relatif à l'obligation de vaccination par le BCG des professionnels listés aux articles L |access-date=2 February 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730010610/http://www.hcsp.fr/docspdf/avisrapports/hcspa20100305_BCG.pdf |archive-date=30 July 2012 }}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1950–2007
|-

| {{flaglist|Germany}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web | work =BCG World Atlas |url=http://www.bcgatlas.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612044328/http://www.bcgatlas.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 June 2009 |title=A Database of Global BCG Vaccination Policies and Practices |access-date=4 April 2020 }}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1961–1998 (East Germany began 1951)
|-

| {{flaglist|Greece}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gabriele F, Katragkou A, Roilides E | title = BCG vaccination policy in Greece: time for another review? | journal = The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | volume = 18 | issue = 10 | pages = 1258 | date = October 2014 | pmid = 25216844 | doi = 10.5588/ijtld.14.0282 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moh.gov.gr/articles/health/dieythynsh-dhmosias-ygieinhs/emboliasmoi/alles-systaseis-ths-ethnikhs-epitrophs-emboliasmwn/6358-diakoph-ths-efarmoghs-katholikoy-antifymatikoy-emboliasmoy-embolio-bcg-sta-paidia-ths-a-dhmotikoy-2016|title=Διακοπή της εφαρμογής καθολικού αντιφυματικού εμβολιασμού (εμβόλιο BCG) στα παιδιά της Α΄ Δημοτικού 2016|website=Υπουργείο Υγείας|access-date=26 December 2020|archive-date=8 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508081156/https://www.moh.gov.gr/articles/health/dieythynsh-dhmosias-ygieinhs/emboliasmoi/alles-systaseis-ths-ethnikhs-epitrophs-emboliasmwn/6358-diakoph-ths-efarmoghs-katholikoy-antifymatikoy-emboliasmoy-embolio-bcg-sta-paidia-ths-a-dhmotikoy-2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|?–2016
|-

| {{flaglist|Hungary}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.antsz.hu/felso_menu/temaink/jarvany/jarvany_archivum/oltasbiztonsag/BCG_hatteranyag.html|title=A tuberkulózis és a tuberkulózis elleni védőoltás (BCG)|trans-title=Tuberculosis and tuberculosis vaccination|date=17 July 2015|website=ÁNTSZ|access-date=5 April 2020|archive-date=11 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411140436/https://www.antsz.hu/felso_menu/temaink/jarvany/jarvany_archivum/oltasbiztonsag/BCG_hatteranyag.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Integrált Jogvédelmi Szolgálat |url=http://www.ijsz.hu/UserFiles/000989_eszi_honlapra_20151215.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716050327/http://www.ijsz.hu/UserFiles/000989_eszi_honlapra_20151215.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=20 October 2022 |website=Integrált Jogvédelmi Szolgálat |language=Hungarian}}</ref>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1953–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Ireland}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-more-striking-evidence-bcg-vaccine-might-protect-against-covid-19-1.4222110|title=Coronavirus: More "striking" evidence BCG vaccine might protect against Covid-19|vauthors=O'Sullivan K|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=6 April 2020|archive-date=7 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407140758/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-more-striking-evidence-bcg-vaccine-might-protect-against-covid-19-1.4222110|url-status=live}}</ref>
| {{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1950s–2015
|-

| {{flaglist|Italy}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{na}}
|{{na}}
|<small>N/A</small>
|-

| {{flaglist|Latvia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1940s–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Lithuania}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|?–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Moldova}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|?–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Netherlands}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|?-1979
|-

| {{flaglist|North Macedonia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1950–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Norway}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fhi.no/artikler/?id=68710|title=Tuberkulosevaksinasjon – veileder for helsepersonell |trans-title=Tuberculosis vaccination - guide for healthcare professionals |website=FHI.no|language=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307230111/http://www.fhi.no/eway/default.aspx?pid=239&trg=Content_6493&Main_6157=6287%3A0%3A25%2C5501&MainContent_6287=6493%3A0%3A25%2C6826&Content_6493=6441%3A68710%3A%3A0%3A6446%3A1%3A%3A%3A0%3A0|archive-date=7 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1947–1995, voluntary 1995–2009
|-

| {{flaglist|Poland}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1955–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Portugal}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://venice.cineca.org/documents/portugal_ip.pdf |title=Portugal data |publisher=venice.cineca.org |access-date=11 April 2020 |archive-date=7 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407232530/http://venice.cineca.org/documents/portugal_ip.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|?–2016
|-

| {{flaglist|Romania}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csid.ro/health/vaccinuri/vaccinari-cu-obligativitate-generala-11304260 |title=Vaccinări cu obligativitate generală |trans-title=Vaccinations with general obligation |access-date=14 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819141428/http://https/ |archive-date=19 August 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1928–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Russia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1962–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Serbia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1928–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Slovakia}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref name="WHO2018" />
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1953–2012
|-

| {{flaglist|Slovenia}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1947–2005
|-

| {{flaglist|Spain}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vacunas.org/vacunas-disponibles-tuberculosis/|title=Vacunas disponibles {{pipe}} Vacunas / Asociación Española de Vacunología|date=20 December 2018|trans-title=Vaccines available; Vaccines / Spanish Association of Vaccination|access-date=8 April 2020|archive-date=6 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506040815/https://www.vacunas.org/vacunas-disponibles-tuberculosis/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1965–1981
|-

| {{flaglist|Sweden}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/vaccinationer/vacciner-a-o/tuberkulos-tb/|title=Tuberkulos (TB) – om vaccination – Folkhälsomyndigheten|website=folkhalsomyndigheten.se|date=21 February 2022|trans-title=Tuberculosis (TB) - on vaccination - Public Health Agency|access-date=11 April 2020|archive-date=13 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413151455/https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/vaccinationer/vacciner-a-o/tuberkulos-tb/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1940–1975
|-

| {{flaglist|Switzerland}}<ref name=BCGA/>
|{{na}}
|{{ya}}
|1960s–1987
|-

| {{flaglist|Turkey}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Zwerling A, Behr MA, Verma A, Brewer TF, Menzies D, Pai M | title = The BCG World Atlas: a database of global BCG vaccination policies and practices | journal = PLOS Medicine | volume = 8 | issue = 3 | pages = e1001012 | date = March 2011 | pmid = 21445325 | pmc = 3062527 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001012 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|1952–present
|-

| {{flaglist|Ukraine}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ips.ligazakon.net/document/RE32111 |title=МІНІСТЕРСТВО ОХОРОНИ ЗДОРОВ'Я УКРАЇНИ НАКАЗ N.147 Про внесення змін до Календаря профілактичних щеплень в Україні |lang=uk |trans-title=Ministry of Health of Ukraine Order No. 147 On Amendments to the Calendar of Preventive Vaccinations in Ukraine |publisher=Ministry of Health of Ukraine |date=18 May 2018 |access-date=21 January 2025 |archive-date=18 July 2023 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230718233806/https://ips.ligazakon.net/document/RE32111 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|{{ya}}
|{{ya}}
|?–present
|-

| {{flaglist|United Kingdom}}<ref name=BCGA/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Styblo K, Meijer J | title = Impact of BCG vaccination programmes in children and young adults on the tuberculosis problem | journal = Tubercle | volume = 57 | issue = 1 | pages = 17–43 | date = March 1976 | pmid = 1085050 | doi = 10.1016/0041-3879(76)90015-5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4655355.stm |title=School "TB jabs" to be scrapped |date=6 July 2005|work=BBC News Online |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306040753/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4655355.stm|archive-date=6 March 2012|access-date=24 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/bcg-vaccine-for-tuberculosis-tb/|title=BCG tuberculosis (TB) vaccine overview|website=[[NHS.uk]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401103926/http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/bcg-tuberculosis-TB-vaccine.aspx|archive-date=1 April 2016|access-date=27 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |vauthors=McKie R |title=Coronavirus: should the UK make vaccination mandatory? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/09/coronavirus-should-the-uk-make-vaccination-mandatory |access-date=24 April 2024 |work=The Observer |date=9 January 2022 |archive-date=25 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725192852/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/09/coronavirus-should-the-uk-make-vaccination-mandatory |url-status=live }}</ref>
|{{na}}
|{{na}}
|<small>N/A</small>
|-
|}

===Asia===
* China: Introduced in the 1930s. Increasingly, it became more widespread after 1949. The majority were inoculated by 1979.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Chen ZR, Wei XH, Zhu ZY | title = BCG in China | journal = Chinese Medical Journal | volume = 95 | issue = 6 | pages = 437–442 | date = June 1982 | pmid = 6813052 }}</ref>
* South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia. In these countries, BCG was given at birth and again at age 12. In Malaysia and Singapore from 2001, this policy was changed to once only at birth. South Korea stopped re-vaccination in 2008.
* Hong Kong: BCG is given to all newborns.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fhs.gov.hk/english/main_ser/child_health/child_health_recommend.html|title=Child health – Immunisation|access-date=6 January 2020|archive-date=10 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191110104131/https://www.fhs.gov.hk/english/main_ser/child_health/child_health_recommend.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Japan: In Japan, BCG was introduced in 1951, given typically at age 6. From 2005 it is administered between five and eight months after birth, and no later than a child's first birthday. BCG was administered no later than the fourth birthday until 2005, and no later than six months from birth from 2005 to 2012; the schedule was changed in 2012 due to reports of [[osteitis]] side effects from vaccinations at 3–4 months. Some municipalities recommend an earlier immunization schedule.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mhlw.go.jp/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryou/kenkou/kekkaku-kansenshou/bcg/|title=結核とBCGワクチンに関するQ&A｜厚生労働省 |trans-title=Q & A about tuberculosis and BCG vaccine, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare |website=mhlw.go.jp|language=ja|access-date=10 July 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416183326/http://www.mhlw.go.jp/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryou/kenkou/kekkaku-kansenshou/bcg/|archive-date=16 April 2017}}</ref>
* Thailand: In Thailand, the BCG vaccine is given routinely at birth.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pidst.net/A385.html|title=Thai Pediatrics|website=Thai Pediatrics|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119183506/http://www.pidst.net/A385.html|archive-date=19 November 2015}}</ref>
* India and Pakistan: India and Pakistan introduced BCG mass immunization in 1948, the first countries outside Europe to do so.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Mahler HT, Mohamed Ali P|year=1955|title=Review of mass B.C.G. project in India|url=http://openmed.nic.in/804/|url-status=dead|journal=Ind J Tuberculosis|volume=2|issue=3|pages=108–16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213202749/http://openmed.nic.in/804/|archive-date=13 February 2007}}</ref> In 2015, millions of infants were denied BCG vaccine in Pakistan for the first time due to shortage globally.<ref>{{cite news |vauthors=Chaudhry A |title=Millions of infants denied anti-TB vaccination |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1165534 |access-date=8 April 2020 |work=Dawn |location=Pakistan |date=24 February 2015 |archive-date=6 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506144007/https://www.dawn.com/news/1165534 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Mongolia: All newborns are vaccinated with BCG. Previously, the vaccine was also given at ages 8 and 15, although this is no longer common practice.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rauniyar SK, Munkhbat E, Ueda P, Yoneoka D, Shibuya K, Nomura S | title = Timeliness of routine vaccination among children and determinants associated with age-appropriate vaccination in Mongolia | journal = Heliyon | volume = 6 | issue = 9 | pages = e04898 | date = September 2020 | pmid = 32995607 | pmc = 7505765 | doi = 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04898 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2020Heliy...604898R }}</ref>
* Philippines: BCG vaccine started in the Philippines in 1979 with the [[Expanded Program on Immunization (Philippines)|Expanded Program on Immunization]].
* Sri Lanka: In Sri Lanka, The National Policy of Sri Lanka is to give BCG vaccination to all newborn babies immediately after birth. BCG vaccination is carried out under the Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://203.94.76.60/TBWeb/web/PreventionofTB-1.html|title=Role of BC Vaccination|website=The National Programme for tuberculosis Control & Chest Diseases.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606083222/http://203.94.76.60/TBWeb/web/PreventionofTB-1.html|archive-date=6 June 2013}}</ref>

===Middle East===
* Israel: BCG was given to all newborns between 1955 and 1982.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hamiel U, Kozer E, Youngster I | title = SARS-CoV-2 Rates in BCG-Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Young Adults | journal = JAMA | volume = 323 | issue = 22 | pages = 2340–2341 | date = June 2020 | pmid = 32401274 | pmc = 7221856 | doi = 10.1001/jama.2020.8189 }}</ref>
* Iran: Iran's vaccination policy was implemented in 1984. Vaccination with the Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (BCG) is among the most important tuberculosis control strategies in Iran [2]. According to Iranian neonatal vaccination policy, BCG has been given as a single dose to children aged <6 years, shortly after birth or at first contact with the health services.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sadeghi-Shanbestari M, Ansarin K, Maljaei SH, Rafeey M, Pezeshki Z, Kousha A, Baradaran R, Casanova JL, Feinberg J, de Villartay JP | title = Immunologic aspects of patients with disseminated bacille Calmette-Guerin disease in north-west of Iran | journal = Italian Journal of Pediatrics | volume = 35 | issue = 1 | pages = 42 | date = December 2009 | pmid = 20030825 | pmc = 2806263 | doi = 10.1186/1824-7288-35-42 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

===Africa===
* South Africa: In South Africa, the BCG Vaccine is given routinely at birth, to all newborns, except those with clinically symptomatic AIDS. The vaccination site is in the right arm.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.doh.gov.za/docs/programmes/2006/bcg.pdf |title=BCG |publisher=[[South African National Department of Health]] |date=2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511100236/http://www.doh.gov.za/docs/programmes/2006/bcg.pdf |archive-date=11 May 2013 }}</ref>
* Morocco: In Morocco, the BCG was introduced in 1949. The policy is BCG vaccination at birth, to all newborns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.academie-medecine.fr/evolution-du-calendrier-vaccinal-au-maroc/|title=Évolution du calendrier vaccinal au Maroc|date=29 May 2006|access-date=8 April 2020|archive-date=6 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506111823/http://www.academie-medecine.fr/evolution-du-calendrier-vaccinal-au-maroc/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Kenya: In Kenya, the BCG Vaccine is given routinely at birth to all newborns.<ref>{{cite web |title=BCG Vaccine – Its Evolution and Importance |url=https://chskenya.org/bcg-vaccine-its-evolution-and-importance/ |website=Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=12 January 2016 |archive-date=25 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725192825/https://chskenya.org/bcg-vaccine-its-evolution-and-importance/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== South Pacific ===
* Australia: BCG vaccination was used between the 1950s and mid-1980s. BCG has not been part of routine vaccination since the mid-1980s.<ref>{{cite web |title=BCG vaccine for TB |url=https://www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo/fact_sheets/BCG_vaccine_for_TB/ |publisher=Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=9 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309063205/https://www.rch.org.au/kidsinfo/fact_sheets/BCG_vaccine_for_TB/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* New Zealand: BCG Immunisation was first introduced for 13-year-olds in 1948. Vaccination was phased out from 1963 to 1990.<ref name=BCGA/>