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.
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.
Vaccination research is always evolving, harnessing new technologies to help reduce the burden of several diseases or to eliminate them entirely from our communities.