31 March 2021
This article is part of a series of explainers on vaccine development and distribution. Learn more about vaccines – from how they work and how they’re made to ensuring safety and equitable access – in WHO’s Vaccines Explained series.
 COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and getting v...accinated will help protect you against developing severe COVID-19 disease and dying from COVID-19. You may experience some mild side effects after getting vaccinated, which are signs that your body is building protection.
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                                                                COVID-19 vaccination will help protect you from getting COVID-19. You may have some side effects, which are normal signs that your body is building protection. These side effects may affect your ability to do daily activities, but they should go away in a few days. Some people have no side effects.
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                                                                Vaccines are designed to give you immunity without the dangers of getting the disease. It’s common to experience some mild to moderate side effects when receiving vaccinations. This is because your immune system instructs your body to increase blood flow so more immune cells can circulate, and it ...raises your body temperature to kill the virus. Vaccines help protect us against disease and feeling mild or moderate side effects after receiving one is a sign that the vaccine and our immune system is working.
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Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are known to potentially cause heart rhythm problems, and these could be exacerbated if treatment is combined with other medicines, such as the antibiotic azithromycin, that have similar effects on the heart.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
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Health workers play a key role in ensuring  the continued safety of COVID-19 vaccines
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                If you have the choice of more than one vaccine and are wondering which one to take and how to assess the risk of side effects, this episode of Science in 5 with WHO’s Dr Katherine O’Brien is for you.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This briefing paper provides an overview of the approach underlying  EA,  how  and  by  whom  it  is  applied  and  its  problems  and  consequences.  It  concludes  that  policy  makers,  rather  than  be  guided  by  its  assumptions  and  conclusions,  must  instead  concentrate  on  understand-i...ng the confounding structural causes of interdependent global  challenges  and  aim  at  their  long-term  solution,  within an overarching human rights framework.
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                                                                The  guide  is  organized  into  the  major  types  of  toxicities,  the  associated  symp-toms, possible offending medications, and the suggested nursing assessments and interventions. Some symptoms (e.g. nausea) may be associated with a num-ber of underlying causes and may be mild, or a symptom of... a more serious medical  situation  requiring  urgent  attention.  The  pathophysiology  for  medica-tion-related fatigue and hypersalivation are unclear and these symptoms are not grouped under a specific type of toxicity. Additional information (comments) are provided for each toxicity to highlight relevant clinical information that may assist in  management  of  side  effects.  Medications  more  strongly  associated  with  the  side effect appear in bold text. The appendices include tools nurses can use to more thoroughly assess patient complaints of pain, depression and neuropathy.
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                                                                Version: 14 March 2019; A one-page reference guide to all the anti-HIV drugs licensed for use in the European Union, with information on formulation, dosing, key side-effects and food restrictions.
The previous edition of the drugs chart is also available to download in Russian.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                “Effective  Altruism” — What it is, how philanthropic foundations use it and what are its risks and side-effects
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                With this quick reference guide, providers can easily recognize diseases and side effects related to climate change, implement appropriate management and provide guidance to exposed populations, provide up-to-date information on the relationship between the adverse effects of certain drugs and the w...orsening of climate-sensitive health conditions, and determine the possible consequences of climate change for health services. This book addresses key meteorological risks, as well as the health conditions which they may influence, grouped by specific clinical areas.
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                                                                World Report on the risk of cholera outbreak in Syria due to deteriorated drinking water systems as side effect of war.
Published:September 24, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01836-0
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Introduces the GATHER approach to counseling, a patient-centered approach that improves patient satisfaction
Has a chapter offering basic biomedical information on cancer, as requested by health workers
Includes information about management of side effects
Encourages health workers to take care o...f themselves and acknowledges the stressful nature of their work.
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                                                                Direct acting antivirals (DAAs) have revolutionized treatment for hepatitis C. Combi-
nations  of  DAAs  can  cure  infection  with  HCV  in  12  weeks,  are  highly  effective  and 
have  limited  side-effects.  Affordability  of  DAAs  has  improved  significantly,  but  access  remains  lim-
i...ted.  Initially,  due  to  their  high  prices,  affordability  of  DAAs  was  limited  in  high-,  middle-  and  low-
income countries alike. Now there is a divide between those countries where, because of intellectual 
property barriers, prices have remained (very) high and other countries where generics are, or can be, 
available at much lower prices. The result is a dual market
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