Description
Medicines and vaccines are carefully assessed and tested before they reach us. But the work to keep us safe doesn't end there. Pharmacovigilance plays a vital role in detecting, assessing and preventing potential side effects throughout a product's life cycle.
Discover five essential things about pharmacovigilance and how WHO works with countries and partners to monitor medicine and vaccine safety, identify potential risks, and strengthen safety systems worldwide.
From global safety monitoring to the importance of reporting suspected side effects, learn how pharmacovigilance helps protect patients, build public trust and make medicines and vaccines safer for everyone, everywhere. Because when regulation works, lives are protected.
Learn more:
https://www.who.int/teams/regulation-prequalification/regulation-and-safety