live varicella vaccine
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.
2 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 31 May 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
PRIORIX-TETRA vaccine 0.5mL powder for injection vial with diluent syringe
Injection, powder for · ARTG 107286
- 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
- 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
- 14 August 2026 The TGA's dates span 0 days.
- Resolved
- 14 August 2026
- TGA last updated
- 31 May 2026
VARILRIX HSA-FREE varicella vaccine live attenuated 0.5mL injection vial plus diluent syringe composite pack
Injection, powder for · ARTG 234750
- 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
- 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
- 23 September 2025 The TGA's dates span 11 months.
- Resolved
- 14 August 2026
- TGA last updated
- 1 October 2025
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 live varicella vaccine, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type live varicella vaccine 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.