Providing access to immunisation for vulnerable groups (PAIVnG). Refugees and asylum seekers arrive in Australia from resource-poor countries that often have sub-optimal immunisation coverage. Subsequently, this group is at greater risk of vaccine-preventable diseases and can also be disproportionately impacted by the “No Jab, No Pay” and “No Jab, No Play” policies.
The Victorian Department of Health engaged with ACPCC to facilitate the immunisation management of refugees and asylum seekers as part of the Victorian Government’s Program for Refugee Immunisation Monitoring and Education (PRIME).
Since ACPCC implemented PAIVnG in January 2018, we have continued to support this important project enabling local council project partners to track and refer refugee and asylum seeker clients to complete immunisation. PAIVnG centralises management of all project data, which allows a single view of participants for councils and DHHS to easily monitor both participant and project progress.
canSCREEN’s PAIVnG instance has now supported in excess of 14,000 vulnerable people through their vaccination journey.
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