No jab, no record: Catch-up vaccination of children in immigration detention

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
Karen M KiangGeorgia A Paxton

Abstract

International Health and Medical Services (IHMS) are contracted to provide health services, including catch-up vaccination, for individuals in immigration detention. Our audit of catch-up vaccination in asylum seeker children who spent time in held detention demonstrates inadequate and suboptimal vaccine delivery in this setting, and no evidence that IHMS recorded vaccines on the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register at the time. We also found substantial shortfalls in vaccination for these children after they were released from detention. Immunisation in this cohort falls well below Australian community standards, does not demonstrate assurance in IHMS provision of care, and has implications for similar asylum seeker cohorts nationally as well as people in held detention.

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