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.

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

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