Apr 23, 2024 · Vaccination is a simple, safe, and effective way of protecting you against harmful diseases, before you come into contact with them. It uses your body’s natural defenses to …

Jun 13, 2025 · Vaccination is a simple, safe, and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases, before they come into contact with them. It uses your body’s natural …

Mar 26, 2025 · Vaccination is one of the best ways to prevent diseases. Over the past 50 years, essential vaccines saved at least 154 million lives (1). During the same period, vaccination has …

Mar 10, 2025 · Vaccine protection and timing. Vaccines work by building strong protection against disease. Some vaccines require only one dose to build protection, while others need multiple …

Feb 25, 2025 · 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 …

Feb 24, 2025 · There are three main approaches to designing a vaccine. Their differences lie in whether they use a whole virus or bacterium; just the parts of the germ that triggers the …

Oct 8, 2024 · All COVID-19 vaccines, listed by WHO as for emergency use or prequalified, provide protection against severe disease and death resulting from COVID-19 infection. mRNA and …

4 days ago · Vaccination is a simple, safe, and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases, before they come into contact with them. It uses your body’s natural defences to …

See WHO’s landscape of COVID-19 vaccine candidates for the latest information on vaccines in clinical and pre-clinical development. WHO’s COVID-19 dashboard also features the number …

Feb 25, 2025 · 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. How are …

Feb 24, 2025 · "Vaccines Explained" is a series of illustrated articles that describe how vaccines work, how they’re developed and distributed and how their safety is carefully monitored. Check …

Mar 10, 2025 · You can visit the WHO website to find answers to common questions on vaccination and vaccine safety. You can also check your local health department website or …

Vaccines have saved more human lives than any other medical invention in history. Scroll on to take a journey through the last millennium to see how these extraordinary discoveries and …

Jun 5, 2025 · By the end of 2023, more than 13.6 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered globally, reaching 89% of health workers and 84% of older adults. However, the …

Apr 26, 2017 · Fact 1: Immunization through vaccination is the safest way to protect against disease. Whatever you might read or hear, vaccines produce an immune response similar to …

Jan 12, 2021 · 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. As of December …

Oct 8, 2024 · Safe and effective vaccines help ensure that COVID-19 does not result in severe disease and death. In 2021 alone, COVID-19 vaccines saved at least an estimated 14.4 million …

Dec 31, 2020 · The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the first to receive …

Mar 31, 2021 · 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. Vaccines are a …

May 7, 2021 · WHO today listed the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving the green light for this vaccine to be rolled out globally. The Sinopharm vaccine is produced by …