Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by parasites that spread through mosquito bites.

Rabies is a viral infection that affects the central nervous system.

Dengue fever is a viral infection that is spread to humans through bites from infected mosquitoes.

Key facts on rotavirus, symptoms, complications, risk factors, how it spreads, prevention, and treatment.

It is natural to have questions about vaccines when making the decision to vaccinate for yourself or your loved ones. This page offers some of the most common questions people can have about vaccines, with fact-based answers.

Frequently asked questions and answers by new and expecting parents.

Find out how vaccines can protect both parents and their babies before, during and after pregnancy.

Making sure you are up to date with your vaccinations can prevent some of the most serious threats to your baby.

Vaccinating a pregnant person protects them from potentially severe disease and complications during their pregnancy and can also extend that protection to a newborn after birth.

Vaccines have been in use for over 200 years, since the first ever vaccine was developed to protect against smallpox, a disease that killed up to half of all those infected and that took a major toll on human civilisation, in 1796.