Description of the steps in the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation’s (ATAGI) decision-making process that lead to the clinical recommendations in the Australian Immunisation Handbook.
People who are immunocompromised have an increased risk of disease. They may need extra doses of some vaccines to optimise protection. Some vaccines are contraindicated in these people.
Several pneumococcal vaccines are available in Australia. The additional doses that some people are recommended to receive depend on which pneumococcal vaccine doses they have previously received.
