Computerised database monitors vaccine safety in Vietnam

Officials in Vietnam have successfully set up a system to monitor vaccine related adverse events. The authors believe that it is the first purpose built health information system used to evaluate vaccine safety in a non-industrialised country ( Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2005;83:604-8). The government started a countrywide measles vaccination campaign in 2002 in the north of Vietnam that was extended to the south of the country in 2003. Parents and guardians of children aged 9 months to 10 years were invited to have their children immunised regardless of the child's …