COVID-19 vaccine-specific resources
Nurse Fatmata Forna (right) and Nurse Ramatu Conteh (left) at a mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Rofunta, Sierra Leone on 6 December 2022.
Vaccine-specific resources for COVID-19 vaccines that receive emergency use listing or prequalification. These resources are intended to support countries in preparing for COVID-19 vaccine introduction.
Considerations for optimizing the COVID-19 vaccine country portfolio summarizes WHO latest recommendations and considerations for choosing COVID-19 vaccine products with WHO Emergency Use Listing.
The COVID-19 vaccine-specific resources course provides key information about COVID-19 vaccines through short instructional videos, vaccine explainers, job aids, topic briefings, and downloadable presentations.
Vaxzrevia/Covishield (AstraZeneca)
The AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S/nCoV-19 [recombinant] vaccine resource includes key information on the vaccine specific requirements. UPDATED
Training video
The AstraZeneca ChAdOx1-S/nCoV-19 [recombinant] COVID-19 vaccine training video provides a brief (5 minute) overview of how to handle, prepare, and administer this vaccine.
COVAXIN (Bharat)
The COVAXIN® (BBV152, Bharath Biotech International Ltd.) COVID-19 vaccine resource includes key vaccine specific information.
Janssen
The COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen (Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant]) vaccine resource includes key information on the vaccine specific requirements. This document has been updated in English.
Training video
The COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen (Ad26.COV2-S [recombinant]) training video provides a brief (6 minute) overview of how to handle, prepare and administer this vaccine. Updated 15 July 2022. Available in English and French.
Job aid
The Janssen vaccine job aide aims to guide countries in managing the delivery and storage of the vaccine labelled and delivered in different storage temperatures.
Spikevax (Moderna)
The COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna explainer provides key vaccine-specific information.
Training video
The Moderna mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine training video provides a brief (6 minute) overview of how to handle, prepare, and administer this vaccine. (Update pending).
Covovax/Nuvaxovid (Novavax)
The Covovax™ (SIIPL) and Nuvaxovid™ (Novavax) vaccine explainer includes key vaccine specific information.
Cominarty (Pfizer/BioNTech)
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine Comirnaty® (Tozinameran) provides key vaccine-specific information.
This vaccine resource provides key vaccine-specific information for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Comirnaty®, a messenger RNA (mRNA) based vaccine...
This vaccine resource provides key vaccine-specific information for the paediatric formulation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine COMIRNATY®,...
Training video
Instructional training video available in English and French - This short video (8:58 min) provides instructions on how to store, thaw, prepare and administer two presentations of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccines Comirnaty® used in persons 12 years of age and older. (Updated 13 July 2022)
Additional resources
As more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine become available to AMC countries through the COVAX Facility, the Country Readiness and Delivery team is developing several resources to support countries in the vaccine roll-out. A dedicated resource page on TechNet-21 has available resources, including:
- Training on Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19mRNA Vaccine COMIRNATY® (Tozinameran)
- Training on handling, storing and transporting Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine COMIRNATY® (Tozinameran) - available in English, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
- COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Technical brief on delivery strategies options
Sinopharm
The Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine (vero cell), inactivated vaccine resource includes key information on the vaccine specific requirements.
CoronaVac (Sinovac)
The COVID-19 Vaccine (Vero Cell) Inactivated, CoronaVac vaccine resource includes key information on the vaccine specific requirements.
Training video
The Administering the BIBP/Sinopharm and CoronaVac/Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines (immunizationacademy.com) training video, available in English and French, provides a brief overview on how to store and administer these COVID-19 vaccines.
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