Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre

Our clinic is designated as a Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre in Canada, through the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).  PHAC is in the process of modernizing the Yellow Fever Vaccination Program for three key reasons:

• Canada has obligations under the revised International Health Regulations (IHR 2005)
  
  
• Changes in health care practices have occurred whereby roles of health care professionals have evolved
  
  
• More Canadians are travelling to areas potentially at risk for transmission of yellow fever

The IHR (2005) require Canada to designate yellow fever vaccination centres in order to ensure the quality and safety of the procedures and materials employed.  Furthermore, yellow fever is currently the only disease under the IHR (2005) for which proof of vaccination may be required for travellers as a condition of entry to a country.

Modernization of the Yellow Fever Vaccination Program will involve longer term consultations with the provinces and territories as well as other stakeholders.  In the interim, however, PHAC has revised the designation process of Yellow Fever Vaccination Centres to address immediate needs.

In order to be designated as a Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre in Canada and to maintain such designation, PHAC requires each health care site to fulfill certain requirements, as far as licensure of health care practitioner, ability to administer yellow fever vaccine under provincial legislation, available policies and procedures around safe and appropriate administration of yellow fever vaccine, available reference resources, and cold chain policies.  Yearly requirements of maintaining such designation through PHAC are also in place.
 

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