{"id":20209,"date":"2024-02-07T07:13:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T01:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20209"},"modified":"2025-04-05T23:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:36:55","slug":"vaccine-safety-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vaccine-safety-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Safety Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vaccine Safety Net:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>global network of websites<\/strong>, established by the <strong>World Health Organization<\/strong> that provides reliable information on <strong>vaccine safety.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a network of a diverse group of <strong>digital information resources<\/strong> (websites and social media), VSN members, located in countries around the world and providing scientifically based information on vaccine safety in various languages.<\/li>\n<li>A key player in the Project is the <strong>Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety<\/strong> (GACVS), <strong>established by WHO in 1999<\/strong>, to respond promptly, efficiently, and with scientific rigour to vaccine safety issues of potential global importance.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>At the outset of the Project, GACVS developed three categories of criteria for good information practices &#8211; <strong>regarding credibility, content, accessibility and design<\/strong> to which digital resources providing information on vaccine safety should adhere.<\/li>\n<li>WHO evaluates those electronic resources for their adherence to these criteria.<\/li>\n<li>It is continuously expanding and till date 110 websites from 45 countries provide vaccine safety <strong>information in 43 languages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is a vaccine?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a suspension of weakened, killed, or fragmented microorganisms or toxins or other biological preparation, such as those consisting of antibodies, lymphocytes, or mRNA, that is administered primarily to prevent disease.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/healthcare\/news-healthcare\/the-healthy-indian-project-thip-joins-whos-vaccine-safety-net\/3384686\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>The Healthy Indian Project (THIP) Joins WHO\u2019s vaccine safety net<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccine Safety Net is a global network of websites, established by the World Health Organization that provides reliable information on vaccine safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}