Perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women in South Africa
African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination for pregnant women in South Africa | |
| Creator | Hunter, Mehreen Moodley, Jagidesa Moran, Neil | |
| Description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic that has created a global health crisis and upended conventional methodologies, both in the governance and clinical structures of Health Care Systems. The spread of COVID-19 has necessitated a coordinated public health response in an effective, extensive and expedited vaccination rollout strategy with the ultimate aim of limiting all nidi of infection for the pathogen. For this goal to be realised, pregnant women, as a cohort, cannot reasonably be excluded from this initiative, despite the initial reluctance to include them in clinical trials for various ethical and legal reasons. Weighing the detrimental complications of COVID-19 on maternal and perinatal outcomes against the hypothetical risk of vaccination in the context of promising, albeit indirect, safety and efficacy data, this report argues that all pregnant women should be offered the choice of whether or not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine based on the available evidence and their individualised risk-benefit ratio. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2021-07-27 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/phcfm.v13i1.2998 | |
| Source | African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 13, No 1 (2021); 3 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/2998/4778
https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/2998/4771
https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/2998/4772
https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/2998/4779
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