Recommended vaccinations
Routine vaccination:
Vaccinations included in the vaccination schedule to be updated
Hepatitis A
1 injection two weeks before departure, booster 1 to 3 (5) years later.
Children: aged ≥1 year.
NB: A yellow fever vaccination certificate is required for all travelers aged ≥1 year arriving from countries with a risk of yellow fever transmission and all travelers who spend more than 12 hours in transit at an airport in a country where there is a risk of yellow fever transmission.
Based on your travel plans:
Based on your travel plans:
Hepatitis B
For long or frequent trips
Two injections one month apart
Booster 6 months later
When protection is needed as early as possible (with almost imminent departure), an accelerated schedule of three injections within a short interval and a fourth dose 1 year later is feasible, in adults only.
Japanese encephalitis
From the age of 2 months for expatriates or people visiting rural areas during the transmission season (see Opinion of the French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) of September 20, 2013 on the recommendation for vaccination against Japanese encephalitis).
Rabies
For long trips to isolated areas
Children: as soon as they can walk
Typhoid
For long trips or in conditions of poor hygiene
Children: aged ≥2 years
Malaria prevention
There is no malaria in the Maldives.
(Source: Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin [BEH] – Health Recommendations for Travelers).