Medicine shortages

hydralazine hydrochloride

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 critical impact. That is a judgement about how hard the medicine is to substitute in clinical care, not a prediction about any one person. If you take this medicine, speak to your pharmacist or doctor about what is available. Do not stop or change how you take it on your own.

1 product record on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 1 June 2025. 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

APRESOLINE hydralazine hydrochloride 20mg powder for injection ampoule

Injection, powder for · ARTG 43190

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
Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
TGA impact rating
Critical impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as critical impact. That is a judgement about how hard the medicine is to substitute in clinical care, not a prediction about any one person. If you take this medicine, speak to your pharmacist or doctor about what is available. Do not stop or change how you take it on your own.
Reported from
8 August 2025 The TGA's dates span 20 months.
Expected to be resolved
31 March 2027 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
TGA last updated
1 June 2025

What the TGA says is being done

Overseas-registered products have been approved for supply under section 19A. See the website and search for the active ingredient: https://www.tga.gov.au/resources/section-19a-approvals

Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.

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.

To read the TGA's own entry for hydralazine hydrochloride, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type hydralazine hydrochloride into its filter box. The TGA's register has no direct link to an individual medicine, so this is the closest link that exists. General information about medicine shortages is on the TGA's medicine shortages page.

Voxsanity last read the register on 18 August 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.