The National Immunisation Program provides free vaccines to eligible people to help reduce diseases that can be prevented by vaccination. The Australian Government and National Immunisation Program have developed fact sheets about fighting the flu in eleven languages.
Benefits of immunisation
All diseases we vaccinate against can cause serious ongoing health conditions, and sometimes death.
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers immunisation to be the most effective medical intervention we have to prevent deaths and reduce disease in our communities. Immunisation programs prevent about 2.5 million deaths globally every year.
Immunisation protects you from a specific infectious disease and its immediate complications. Immunisation can also provide protection against long term complications from infections such as human papilloma virus which can lead to cancers and infection from the chickenpox virus, which can result in shingles later in life.
The program also covers free catch-up vaccinations if they were missed in childhood for:
- people aged less than 20 years old
- refugees and humanitarian entrants of any age.
Translations
Australian Government and National Immunisation Program has developed fact sheets about fighting the flu in eleven languages.
You can read more about fighting the flu by using the links below:
Fighting the flu starts with you (English) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Arabic) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Chinese Simplified) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Chinese Traditional) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Greek) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Hindi) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Italian) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Korean) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Punjabi) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Filipino) fact sheet.pdf
Fighting the flu starts with you (Vietnamese) fact sheet.pdf
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