Vaccine adverse events reporting system globally

Abstract

Worldwide reporting of vaccines adverse event following immunization is a challenging problem because of absence of well framed reporting system in maximum countries of the world. In Past ten years fear of disease like polio, measles, tetanus, diphtheria etc was important concern in the mind of both parents and doctors than adverse reactions of the vaccinations, but today with the availability of effective vaccines and associated adverse reaction, lead to change in the thinking towards safe use of vaccine through vaccine pharmacovigilance. Hence there is need of effective vaccine adverse reaction reporting system in countries to find rare, serious adverse event following vaccination. This article reviews on vaccine adverse event reporting Systems (offline or /and online reporting) in different countries like U.S.A, U.K, Australia, Singapore, India, Newzealand, Saudi, Srilanka, Canada that have a somewhat effective vaccine phamacovigilance system and also focuses on efforts of WHO in enhancing reporting of adverse event following immunization globally. Death or any type of harm to pediatric population can only be minimized if serious to non serious ADRs be reported with joint effort of health care professionals including doctors, nurses, pharmacist and consumer.