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An Overview of Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring of Drugs and Vaccines during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Estella Achick Tembe-Fokunang
  • Banin Andrew Nyuki
  • Joseph Fokam
  • Dobgima John Fonmboh
  • Kristen Nubia Kaba
  • Lovet Benyella Fokunang
  • François-Xavier Mbopi-Keou
  • Abena, Ondoua Obama Marie Therese
  • Ralf Duerr
  • Charles Ntungwen Fokunang

Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Page 24-41
DOI: 10.9734/jamps/2022/v24i630308
Published: 28 July 2022

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Abstract


Once a drug is approved in phase III of clinical trials, pharmacovigilance (PV) becomes very important for the surveillance of drug, vaccine or medical devices. PV constitutes part of the phase IV approval, which involves a study for collecting, detecting, and monitoring adverse events in any population that the drug is used. The adverse events that are reported must be assessed to ascertain the causal effects and prevent or avoid unanticipated side effects on the population. With the advent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, vaccination has been the motor for the management of the pandemic, and through intensive health sensitization, more people are vaccinated in a short period leading to greater challenges to the PV taskforce and the PV operating centrers. Global partnerships including the international society of pharmacovigilance (ISOP), the French national agency for medicines and health products safety (ANSM), and a multitude of others are working in synergy towards putting in place a continuous collaboration work package with many sensitization, education, capacity building, and research initiatives. This is within the framework of identifying the safety and efficacy of vaccines in order to provide solutions to emerging challenging ethical questions.


Through PV, signal detection is in progress for the identification of adverse events. The unanticipated emergence and negative impact of COVID-19, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has significantly compelled global pharmacists and drug actors to collectively play an important role in the management of COVID-19. This has to be done within the framework of therapeutic strategies and guaranteed safety, efficacy and quality of new and old xenobiotics. In the current treatment COVID-19 has created health-related challenges and a shift in paradigm in drug discovery and development of new chemical entities (NCE), for vaccine or drug repurposing for different levels of treatment interventions. The accelerated interest in dynamic research and innovation have led to different approaches of treatment and this has come with potential side effects, which has led to the call for post marketing surveillance and monitory. PV is therefore a key component for phase IV study for the drugs and vaccines approved for global use. This paper gives an insight into the global PV monitoring and surveillance of new chemical entities (drugs and vaccines) and new technologies targeting the management of COVID-19.


Keywords:
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV 2
  • adverse drug reaction
  • surveillance
  • monitoring
  • vaccine
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Tembe-Fokunang, E. A., Nyuki, B. A., Fokam, J., Fonmboh, D. J., Kaba, K. N., Fokunang, L. B., Mbopi-Keou, F.-X., Therese, A. O. O. M., Duerr, R., & Fokunang, C. N. (2022). An Overview of Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring of Drugs and Vaccines during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 24(6), 24-41. https://doi.org/10.9734/jamps/2022/v24i630308
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