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Vaccine Safety Resources
Healthcare professionals are increasingly being challenged on legitimate or perceived vaccine safety concerns. Knowing how to accurately and confidently communicate about vaccine safety is a vital component of all vaccination programs.
These resources are science-based and come from reliable information sources, including VSN members. They support health communication officers and policy makers to communicate about vaccine safety to all stakeholders. The aim of this section of the VSN portal, is to encourage knowledge sharing and provide a comprehensive communications toolkit to prevent dangerous misconceptions about vaccine safety and vaccine administration practices. The resources comprised in this part include but are not limited to:
- Training material, guidelines and communication plans.
- Vaccine safety information - flyers, brochures, booklets and posters.
- Information for the media - fact sheets, videos and handbooks.
Vaccine Safety Resources for technical experts
These resources are a compilation of technical, science-based information. They aimed to be used from technical experts including healthcare providers, national programmes' immunization officers, officers working in national regulatory authorities, officers of national pharmacovigilance centers. Content of this section is taken by VSN Members and WHO. The resources include, but are not limited to:
- Training material
- Guidelines
- Information sheets.
VSN website templates
The Vaccine Safety Net (VSN) is a global network of websites, established by the World Health Organization, that provides reliable information on vaccine safety.
To support membership from institutions with limited resources, the WHO Pharmacovigilance team developed the “VSN website template”. This is a capacity building tool, which will assist candidate websites from national regulatory authorities, national immunization programmes and professional associations to comply with the VSN criteria for good information practices and join the network.
This template is a “minimum package” containing placeholders for implementing the VSN criteria for good information practices, suggestions on how to adequately address different criteria with examples and screen shots by VSN members and suggested vaccine safety topics to be included to address the criteria related to the content of the website. Topics such as immunization and vaccine safety, tailored to a lay audience and healthcare professionals are included.
Adoption of the VSN website templates will ensure that the website complies with the best practices in terms of accessibility and design and will alleviate the burden of maintenance and update of the website.
Disclaimer
All reasonable precautions have been taken by WHO Pharmacovigilance team to verify the information contained in these VSN templates. However, the content is being provided without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Use of VSN template is strictly voluntary and at the user's sole risk. In no event shall WHO be liable for damages arising from its use.