Influenza immunisation is a highly cost-effective public health intervention. Despite a comprehensive National Immunisation Program, influenza vaccination in children and adolescents with special risk medical conditions (SRMCs) is suboptimal. Flutext-4U is an innovative, multi-component strategy targeting paediatric hospitals, general practice and parents of children and adolescents with SRMC. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• February 2022

Family planning counselling at different contact points of maternal health services has been recommended for increasing the uptake of modern contraceptive methods. However, studies from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demonstrated inconsistent findings. The aim of this systematic review was to synthesise the available current evidence for the association between family planning counselling and postpartum modern contraceptive uptake in SSA. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• March 2022

Providing a safe and effective coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) vaccination program is required to mitigate against the current and future negative impacts on the health and wellbeing of all Australians from COVID‐19. An effective vaccination program is a key element required to facilitate economic recovery, safe movement throughout and beyond Australia and a return to the quality of life previously experienced. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• April 2021

To identify barriers to influenza vaccination of children hospitalised for acute respiratory illness in Australia. A total of 595 parents of children hospitalised with acute respiratory illness across five tertiary hospitals in 2019 participated in an online survey. Multivariate logistic regression identified factors most strongly associated with influenza vaccination barriers.  ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• March 2021

These data support that children are not just 'little adults' in the AMR era, and analyses by age group are important to detect differences in antibiotic susceptibility ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• June 2020

Maternal stressful life events during pregnancy have been associated with immune dysregulation and increased risk for asthma and atopy in offspring. Few studies have investigated whether prenatal stress is associated with increased overall or specific infectious diseases in childhood, nor explored sex differences. We sought to examine the relationship between the nature and timing of maternal stress in pregnancy and hospitalisation with infection in offspring. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• January 2021

Benzathine penicillin G has been used as monthly deep intramuscular (IM) injections since the 1950s for secondary prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). Injection frequency and pain are major programmatic barriers for adherence, prompting calls for development of better long-acting penicillin preparations to prevent RHD. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• October 2020

RV1 and RV5 were both effective in preventing laboratory confirmed and notified rotavirus infections among children aged <5 years ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• September 2019

On-time coverage of the 2-4-6 month schedule is only 50-60% across specific population subgroups representing a significant avoidable public health risk ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• June 2018

Our study provides evidence for geographic clustering of tuberculosis/human immunodeficiency virus co-infection in Ethiopia ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• December 2019