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AUSTRALIA: LOS ANTIVACUNAS PAGARN MS A HACIENDA26 noviembre 2011Fuente:ABC News y The Sidney Herald Tribune

El gobierno federal australiano anuncia que los padres que no tengan bien vacunados a sus hijos no

tendrn derecho al benefico fiscal que se aplica a las familias con descendencia (Family Tax Benefit) y

que puede alcanzar los 2.100 dlares australianos (1.500 euros) por hijo.

La medida est previsto que entre en vigor en julio de 2012, realizndose el control al ao, a los dos y a

los cinco aos de edad.

La Ministra de Salud, Nicola Roxon, ha afirmado: Sabemos que las vacunaciones son fundamentales

para la salud y es por eso por lo que queremos asegurarnos de que los nios se vacunan en el momento

adecuado.

En Australia, el 11% de los nios de 5 aos no estn vacunados.

Ir a la noticia original:

ABC News

Immunise or lose benefits,parents told

Updated December 05, 2011 13:15:50

PHOTO: Families who refusevaccinations face losing up to $2,100 per child in benefits (Jewel Samad: AFP)RELATED STORY: Whooping cough hits 20-year highMAP: AustraliaParents who do not have their children fully immunised will be stripped of family

tax benefits under a scheme announced by the Federal Government.

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The Government says 11 per cent of five-year-olds are not immunised and has announced ashake-up of the system which will take effect from July 1 next year.

Under the changes, families who refuse vaccinations face losing up to $2,100 per child in

benefits.

Families will need to have their children fully immunised to receive the Family Tax Benefit

(FTB) Part A end-of-year supplement.

A new immunisation check will be introduced for one-year-olds to supplement the existingimmunisation checks at two and five years of age.

The FTB supplement, worth $726 per child each year, will now only be paid once a child is fullyimmunised at these checks.

Families are already required to have their child fully immunised to receive Child Care Benefitand the Child Care Rebate.

Children will also be required for the first time to be vaccinated against meningococcal C,

pneumococcal and chicken pox.

Children will also be immunised against measles, mumps and rubella earlier, at 18 monthsinstead of the current four years of age.

Parents who join a list of conscientious objectors will still qualify for the full supplement.

Health Minister Nicola Roxon is also announcing today a new campaign to advise parents andhealthcare providers on what they can do to protect babies from whooping cough.

All parents of newborns will receive letters providing information on immunising againstwhooping cough and how to identify the disease and prevent it spreading.

"We know that immunisation is fundamental to a child's lifelong health and that's why we wantto make sure children are immunised at the right time," Ms Roxon said.

The Government says the changes will deliver savings of $209.1 million over four years.

Editors note: (December 5) a sentence regarding payments to conscientious objectors has

been added.

Topics:vaccines-and-immunity, health, children, family-and-children, community-and-society, welfare, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia

First posted November 25, 2011 10:31:47

The Sidney Herald Tribune

Tax threat to parents who don'thave their children immunised

Mark Metherell

November 25, 2011

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About nine in 10 children are immunised and not being immunised "is a real risk" ... Health Minister

Nicola Roxon. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

PARENTS failing to ensure their children undergo the full six-stageimmunisation risk losing up to $2100 as part of an expanded scheme thatreplaces a small carrot with a big stick to increase vaccination rates.

From next July, the government is axing the $258 ''maternity immunisationallowance'' paid irrespective of income to families of fully immunised childrenaged up to five. Instead the government will require parents have theirchildren fully immunised or forgo three payments of $726 available under thefamily tax benefit A end of year supplement.

The family tax benefit A goes to about 90 per cent of families with youngchildren and the payment provisions will apply for the financial years whenthe child is one, two and five years of age.

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The Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, and the Families Minister, Jenny Macklin,yesterday said the scheme provided ''stronger immunisation incentives'', butalso delivered savings of $209 million over four years. About nine in 10children are immunised now and not being immunised ''is a real risk'' to thechild's health and that of others, Ms Roxon said.

The government has also announced a mailout campaign to promotewhooping cough (pertussis) vaccinations as Australia experiences its highestlevels of the disease in two decades. Notifications of whooping cough caseshave risen from 4864 in 2007 to 34,785 last year.

Under expanded measures, a new immunisation check will be introduced forone-year-olds to supplement existing checks at two and five.

Children for the first time will be required to be vaccinated for meningococcalC, pneumococcal and varicella (chicken pox).

The new vaccines will bring to 12 the number of diseases covered by theimmunisation scheme, although the introduction of new combination vaccines

reduces the number of actual jabs that children have to undergo.

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But the immunisation program now means the number of vaccinationsessions rises from five to six, with a new session at 18 months toaccommodate changes in the schedule. A new combination vaccine which willreplace individual doses for measles, mumps and rubella, as well as the newvaricella dose, will be given at 18 months instead of the present four years.

The whooping cough campaign follows the deaths of seven infants, all agedeight weeks or less, from the disease between January 2008 and July thisyear.

But the vaccinations do not provide lifelong protection from whooping coughand children should have booster shots at age four and then during teenageyears, Ms Roxon said.

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