Immunisation is the only effective way to protect your child against many harmful diseases. It not only ensures your child will be far less likely to catch diseases, but it is also important to help eradicate the disease. If enough people are immunised, the disease will no longer spread in the community and it eventually dies out.

Common side effects of immunisation:

• Be mindful that babies and children can develop a mild fever after vaccinations
• Soreness, swelling and redness in the area where the injection was given
• Drowsiness or tiredness
  Muscle aches
• Loss of appetite