Information Materials
2023/2024 School Programme
In January 2024 school teams will deliver consent packs to your child's school. Your child will bring the consent pack home. Please read the information carefully and sign the consent form in the pack.
Each pack contains:
Information booklet English | Irish | Arabic | French | Polish | Lithuanian | Latvian | Pashto | Albanian | Romanian | Russian | Ukrainian | Somali | Dari | Georgian | Urdu
Letter to parents and guardians English | Irish
Consent Form English | Irish | Ukrainian
The pack also contains an envelope so you can send the completed consent form back to the school with your child before the school immunisation team visits.
After your child is vaccinated they will be given:
Post Vaccination Advice English | Irish | Russian | Ukrainian
You can contact the school immunisation team if you have any questions
Poster English
The vaccine used in the school programme in Ireland is called Gardasil9. It is manufactured by MSD. The licensed documents for each vaccines the Summary of Product Characteristics and the Patient Information Leaflet are available from the HPRA Website.
- Gardasil - Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) and
- Gardasil - Patient Information Leaflet (PIL) for more information about the vaccine.
Information for HSE School Teams
- Royal College of Physicians of Ireland - Immunisation Guidelines for Ireland. Chapter 10 - Human Papillomavirus
- Supporting Information for Staff - School Immunisation Programme 2023/2024 academic year (Updated August 2023)
- HPV Frequently Asked Questions (August 2023)
- Gardasil9 - Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC)
- Gardasil9 - Patient Information Leaflet (PIL)
Medicine Protocol for the School Immunisation Programme
- Gardasil 9 Medicine Protocol
- Anaphylaxis Protocol (updated February 2023)
- Change to the NIAC Guidelines for the treatment of Anaphylaxis