finasteride
Current shortage
The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
7 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 28 August 2026. Not medical advice.
The TGA does not publish a reason for a shortage, so Voxsanity cannot show one. Nothing on this page is an explanation of why supply is affected — that information is not in the source and is not inferred here.
This is national information. The TGA records shortages for Australia as a whole. There is no state, territory or pharmacy-level stock information in this data, and Voxsanity cannot tell you whether a particular pharmacy has a medicine in stock. Your pharmacist can.
Products affected
FINAPEN 1 mg finasteride 1 mg film-coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 189653
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Current shortage The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
- Supply
- Limited Availability The supplier reports limited stock.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 27 August 2026 The TGA's dates span 5 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 29 January 2027 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 28 August 2026
What the TGA says is being done
Alternative brands are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
FINASTERIDE-WGR finasteride 1 mg film-coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 442987
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Shortage resolved The TGA records this shortage as over. Supply reaching individual pharmacies can still take time after a shortage is resolved, so your pharmacy may not have restocked yet.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 28 August 2026 The TGA's dates span 1 month.
- Resolved
- 2 October 2026
- TGA last updated
- 27 April 2026
PHARMACOR FINASTERIDE 5 finasteride 5 mg film-coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 155235
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Shortage resolved The TGA records this shortage as over. Supply reaching individual pharmacies can still take time after a shortage is resolved, so your pharmacy may not have restocked yet.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 17 August 2026 The TGA's dates span 2 months.
- Resolved
- 2 October 2026
- TGA last updated
- 18 August 2026
APO-FINASTERIDE 1 finasteride 1 mg film-coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 155233
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Shortage resolved The TGA records this shortage as over. Supply reaching individual pharmacies can still take time after a shortage is resolved, so your pharmacy may not have restocked yet.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 9 July 2026 The TGA's dates span 28 days.
- Resolved
- 6 August 2026
- TGA last updated
- 14 July 2026
PHARMACOR FINASTERIDE 1 finasteride 1 mg film-coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 155234
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Shortage resolved The TGA records this shortage as over. Supply reaching individual pharmacies can still take time after a shortage is resolved, so your pharmacy may not have restocked yet.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 23 March 2026 The TGA's dates span 5 months.
- Resolved
- 7 August 2026
- TGA last updated
- 24 March 2026
FINASTERIDE GH 1 1 mg finasteride 1 mg film-coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 189651
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- No longer published The TGA no longer publishes a shortage report for this product, so it is not recorded as being in shortage now. The TGA removes a shortage report from its database some months after the shortage ends. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 10 February 2026 The TGA's dates span 4 months.
- Resolved
- 23 June 2026
- TGA last updated
- 20 February 2026
FINASTERIDE GH 5 5 mg finasteride 5 mg film-coated tablet blister pack
Tablet, film coated · ARTG 189652
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- No longer published The TGA no longer publishes a shortage report for this product, so it is not recorded as being in shortage now. The TGA removes a shortage report from its database some months after the shortage ends. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock.
- Supply
- Available The supplier reports stock is available, though not necessarily at every pharmacy.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 17 October 2025 The TGA's dates span 7 months.
- Resolved
- 21 May 2026
- TGA last updated
- 3 November 2025
Terms like ARTG, TGA and PBS are explained in the glossary.
Where this comes from
Source: Medicine Shortage Reports Database, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), © Commonwealth of Australia, reproduced with permission. The TGA does not endorse Voxsanity, and nothing here is presented as a TGA view. Shortage information is free for everyone on this site, with no account and no subscription.
Every product listed above links to the TGA's own shortage record for that product. The TGA's register is organised by product rather than by medicine, so there is no single TGA page covering finasteride as a whole; to see them together, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type finasteride into its filter box. General information about medicine shortages is on the TGA's medicine shortages page.
Voxsanity last read the register on 16 October 2026.
Not medical advice. Voxsanity republishes public government health data in plain English. Speak to your pharmacist or doctor about your own medicines. Do not stop or change how you take a medicine because of anything on this page.