A global survey of adverse event following immunization surveillance systems for pregnant women and their infants

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Table 1. Summary of survey responses by country.

Country	National Maternal Immunization Policy Exists	Active AEFI surveillance: Maternal	Active AEFI surveillance: Infant	Passive AEFI surveillance	Passive: ascertains pregnancy status	Registry for unintentional immunization
High-Income^13
Australia	X	X		X
Canada				X
Chile	X			X
Czech Republic				X
Denmark	X			X
Finland	X			X	X
Germany	X			X	X
Ireland	X			^*
Israel	X			X
Latvia				X	X
Netherlands			X	X
Norway	X			X	X
Oman	X	X
Singapore				X
Slovenia				X
Sweden	X			X
Switzerland	X			X
United Kingdom	X	X	X	X	X	X
United States	X	X	X	X		X
Middle Income^13
Anguilla	X			X
Argentina	X			X	X	X
Brazil	X			X	X	X
Bulgaria
Cameroon				X
China	X			X	X
Costa Rica	X	X	X	X
Côte d'Ivoire	X
Ghana				X
Hungary			X	X	X
India	X			X
Jordan	X
Kyrgyzstan				X
Mexico	X	X	X	X	X
Montenegro				X
Morocco
Pakistan	X			X
Philippines	X			X	X
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	X			X	X
Senegal	X			X
Serbia				X	X
Sudan	X	X	X	X	X
Thailand				X
Low-income^13
Burkina Faso		X		X
Cambodia	X	X		X	X
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	X			X	X
Gambia	X
Mozambique				X	X

Note. AEFI, adverse event following immunization

* No national AEFI surveillance system per WHO criteria, but some AEFI are captured in the national monitoring system for serious adverse drug reactions.

Table 2. Active and passive adverse event following immunization surveillance systems by country income level and WHO region.^13,14

		Active surveillance
	Countries from which responses were received	Maternal	Infant	Passive surveillance	No system/Unknown
	n	n	n	n	n
Income Level
High	19	4	3	16	2
Middle	23	3	4	19	4
Low	5	2	0	4	1
WHO Region
The Americas	9	3	3	9	0
European	18	1	3	15	3
African	8	1	0	6	2
South-East Asian	2	0	0	2	0
Eastern Mediterranean	5	2	1	2	2
Western Pacific	5	2	0	5	0

Table 3. Additional information provided on national and/or regional active adverse event following immunization surveillance systems for pregnant women and/or their infants.

Country	WHO Region^14	Income Level^13	Program Name	Published Results
Netherlands	European	High	pREGnant	No
United States	Americas	High	Vaccine Safety Datalink	Yes^15
Australia	Western Pacific	High	FASTMum	No
Costa Rica	Americas	Middle	Programa ampliado de Inmunizaciones y Centro Nacional de Farmaco-vigilancia	No
Mexico	Americas	Middle	Red Negativa	No
Cambodia	Western Pacific	Low	National Immunization Program	No

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