Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, 5–6 December 2018

The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS), an independent expert clinical and scientific advisory body, provides WHO with scientifically rigorous advice on vaccine safety issues of potential global importance. GACVS held its 39th meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on 5–6 December 2018, when it examined the safety profile of a conjugate typhoid vaccine. It also reviewed 4 generic issues: the status of no-fault vaccine injury compensation programmes (VICPs), immunization stress-related reactions, the development of an updated global vaccine safety strategy and case studies of safety communication in the case of errors in the administration of measles-containing vaccines.