Accessing yellow fever vaccines

Yellow fever vaccine is recommended for travellers visiting yellow fever endemic countries as listed by the World Health Organization.

Vaccine providers

The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care has developed the National Guidelines for Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres and Providers.

The Guidelines aim to provide a nationally consistent approach to yellow fever vaccination and contain:

  • information about yellow fever and vaccination
  • references with additional information
  • guidance on administrative procedures for accreditation of centres and providers
  • conditions applying to, and model forms for use by, Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres.

A practitioner seeking to prescribe and administer the yellow fever vaccine at a Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre is required to successfully complete the Australian CDC’s, Yellow Fever Learning and Accreditation Course. New providers are required to complete the course prior to applying to become an approved Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre.

In Australia, medical centres providing yellow fever vaccine must be approved by their State or Territory Health Department, as per World Health Organization recommendations.

South Australian providers

See Approved Yellow Fever Vaccination Providers in South Australia (PDF 185KB) for a list of approved yellow fever vaccination providers.

Approval of medical centres to provide yellow fever vaccine

Medical centres currently approved

To maintain status as a Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre, an approved medical practice must ensure that all practitioners, responsible for the provision of the vaccine, meet the individual accreditation requirements.

Practitioners prescribing yellow fever vaccine must complete the Yellow Fever Learning and Accreditation Course every three years.

Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres must maintain a list of accredited practitioners and inform the state/territory health authority when practitioners join or leave the centre (refer to National Guidelines for Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres and Providers).

Applying to become an approved yellow fever vaccination clinic

  1. To become an approved yellow fever vaccination clinic, immunisation providers must complete the Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre application package.
  2. The application package along with the required documentation is then to be emailed to healthimmunisation@sa.gov.au.
  3. Once received and it has been determined that all the requirements have been met, the facility is declared a yellow fever provider and will receive a letter of confirmation and a World Health Organization (WHO) approved identification stamp.
  4. Approved providers can then contact Sanofi Pasteur (the yellow fever vaccine distributor) to arrange vaccine supply and the yellow International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis booklets. This is the required documentation for yellow fever vaccination under international health regulations.

Change of details 

The change of details form must be completed by the applicant (principal practitioner) and emailed to healthimmunisation@sa.gov.au within 7 days of any change to your practice or provider details.