What's new?
New vaccines offered on the vaccination schedule
Human papilloma virus (HPV)
HPV is the name for a virus that causes cervical cancer, abnormal PAP smears, genital warts and some other forms of cancer. In 2007 a 2 year HPV vaccine catch up program was introduced offering FREE vaccine to females aged 13 to 26 years of age. This finishes in June 2009. There is also an ongoing program offering FREE HPV vaccine to 12 year old girls as part of the ongoing School Immunisation Program.
HPV Schedule for school vaccinations (Doc 169KB)
HPV fact sheet (Doc 302KB)
List of HPV resources for the public can be found below.
Rotavirus
Rotavirus is a highly infectious disease which can cause severe diarrhoea and vomiting in infants and young children in Australia. Rotavirus vaccine is free from 1st July 2007 for babies born from 1st May 2007. WA is using the rotavirus vaccine Rotarix which is scheduled to be given to babies as an oral dose at 2 and 4 months of age. This can be given at the same time as the other vaccines on the schedule.
This vaccine cannot be given late as the safety of the vaccine has not been tested in older babies so present on time with your baby so they don’t miss out.
If you require factsheets on any of the information below, please contact the HealthInfo line on 1300 135 030 or access the Health Department’s online ordering (External link) system.
Fact sheets:
Information sheets:
Frequently asked questions about:
View useful immunisation websites:
Multicultural resources:
This Public Health Victoria site provides fact sheets in different languages that can be used for Western Australia. The site provides languages in Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croation, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Macedonian, Maltese, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. Go to http://www.health.vic.gov.au/immunisation/language.htm (External link)
