In the last decade school-based vaccination programs have become routine practice across all Australian states and territories. Using existing records and the recollection of experts we have compiled a history of school-based vaccination in Australia, primarily focusing on adolescents. Many developed countries, including Australia, now recommend routine vaccination of adolescents.
This provides protection against future disease risk, boosts existing but waning immunity, and forms part of catch-up programs for those who may not have been adequately vaccinated as children. This, approach has demonstrated significant advantages over delivery through general practitioners GPs alone.
Managed at a state or territory level, current school-based vaccination programs in Australia offer nationally recommended and Australian Government funded vaccines to adolescents in specific school grades using local teams of trained vaccination providers. State and territory governments primarily fund service delivery, although the Australian Government has provided funding for the delivery of some vaccines.
Vaccines are routinely offered to eligible students in targeted school grades, typically late primary school or early secondary school and are not mandated for school entry. Participation is voluntary, and written parental consent is required for each course of vaccine. Much of the historical literature about vaccination in Australia omits detail on school-based delivery.
There is currently no single complete account of the evolution of adolescent school-based vaccination in Australia as there is for childhood vaccination. Where possible, formal written records were identified to supplement and verify the information provided at the time of interview.
This information was used to compile the following historical account of school-based vaccination in Australia, primarily focusing on adolescent programs though including relevant national catch-up campaigns targeting younger school-aged children. One of the earliest recorded national school-based vaccination programs in Australia provided the diphtheria—tetanus toxoid dT vaccine from to The Northern Territory was the only jurisdiction to continue routinely offering this until Table 1.
The national schoolgirl rubella vaccination program commenced in —71 to vaccinate females prior to, but as close as possible to potential pregnancy with a view to reducing the incidence of congenital rubella. The vaccine was offered to one cohort of girls aged 10—14 years and delivered in school grades 6, 7 or 8 in all jurisdictions except Queensland. Although some continued with the school-based approach to deliver adult diphtheria—tetanus vaccine ADT and oral polio vaccine OPV to adolescents, more than 25 years elapsed before the next major national school-based vaccination program was implemented Table 1.
Consequently, a one-off catch-up program for all school students was implemented during The first of these was the National Measles Control Campaign in ; a catch-up campaign for all primary school students 5—12 years of age. This was followed in by the National Meningococcal C Vaccination Program, targeting all children aged 1 to 19 years.
In addition to funding the vaccine, the Australian Government provided time-limited funds to support school-based delivery of the catch-up program in all states and territories.
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Year 7 and Year 10 students will be eligible for catch-up vaccinations before they turn 20 years of age. After this time, vaccines need to be purchased via private prescription. It is recommended that each vaccine service provider develops their own policy and procedures for conducting a SIP ensuring compliance with current legislation, professional standards and codes of practice.
The Resource kit for vaccine service providers PDF kB provides detailed information on each of the steps to implement a school immunisation clinic.
Year 7 consent card PDF kB. Year 10 consent card PDF kB. National Vaccine Storage Guidelines: Strive for 5.
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