Vaccine safety surveillance in South Africa through COVID-19: A journey to systems strengthening
We observed a functional, useful, flexible system with high reported stakeholder and public acceptability levels. System challenges included low reporting rates from particular provinces, weak co-ordination between paper and digital reporting and human resource constraints. Recommendations include integration of paper-based and digital surveillance reporting systems to enhance signal detection and eliminate data duplication, provision of dedicated human and financial resources at provincial level and inclusion of active AEFI surveillance through cohort event monitoring.
Authors
- Sipho Dlamini
- Jonny Peter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2658-0723)
- Halima Dawood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8180-6791)
- Chenoa Sankar
- Clive M. Gray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9293-901X)
- Johanna C. Meyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0462-5713)
- Kerrigan McCarthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-9795)
- Marione Schönfeldt
- Vinod F. Patel
- Victoria Sekiti
- D. D. Spencer
- Lesley Bamford
- Tohlang Sehloho
- Hannah Gunter
- Naseera Pickard
- Lawrence Mubaiwa
- Dini Mawela
Institutions
- National Health Laboratory Service (ZA)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- Groote Schuur Hospital (ZA)
- Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (ZA)
- Grey's Hospital (ZA)
- Community Health Systems - Lutheran Hospital (US)
- Department of Health (ZA)
- Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (ZA)
- Section27 (ZA)
- University of Pretoria (ZA)
- University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Vaccine
- Published
- 2024-12-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.126535
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.64