Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters

The Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters
Formation2013[1][2]
TypeNon-governmental advocacy group
FocusRaising awareness of the importance of vaccination in the Northern Rivers region of the New South Wales state of Australia
Membership (2019)
250[3]
Core Administrators
Dr Rachel Heap and Heidi Robertson
Websitehttp://nrvs.info/

The Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters (NRVS) is a vaccination advocacy group formed in 2013 by people who were concerned about low vaccination rates in the Northern Rivers region of the Australian state of New South Wales.[1][2] Rachel Heap, one of the group's core administrators, has said the organization's primary goal is to spread the word that people shouldn't be afraid of vaccines, but instead, "you should be amazed at how extraordinary they are as a public health measure".[4]

In 2014, the group was presented the Thornett Award for the Promotion of Reason by the Australian Skeptics. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed the NRVS website as a reliable source of information about vaccines and vaccine safety.[5]

As of 2024, the group is on permanent hiatus, and the website is archived.[6]

  1. ^ a b Stephenson, Niamh; Chaukra, Shefali; Katz, Ilan; Heywood, Anita (7 March 2018). "Newspaper coverage of childhood immunisation in Australia: a lens into conflicts within public health". Critical Public Health. 28 (4). Informa UK Limited: 472–483. doi:10.1080/09581596.2018.1446510. ISSN 0958-1596. S2CID 148716622.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference phaa2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  4. ^ "Why you 'shouldn't be afraid' of vaccines: Group". 31 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Why you 'shouldn't be afraid' of vaccines: Group". northernstar.com. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  6. ^ https://nrvs.info/ [bare URL]