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April 19, 2021 Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine access for refugee and displaced populations, and addressing health inequities, is vital for an effective pandemic response. Yet, vaccine allocation and distribution has been neither equitable nor inclusive, despite that global leaders have stressed this as a critical aspect to globally overcoming the pandemic, according to a paper published by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Read Leave No-one Behind: Ensuring Access to COVID-19 vaccines for Refugee and Displaced Populations in the journal
Nature Medicine.
As of April 1st, high and upper-middle-income countries received 86 percent of the vaccine doses delivered worldwide, while only 0.1 percent of doses have been delivered in low-income countries. Worldwide, over 80 percent of refugees and nearly all internally displaced persons are hosted by low and middle-income countries - nations at the end of the line for COVID-19 vaccine doses.
Differences in key COVID-19 statistics tracked to how agencies record them
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Differences in key COVID-19 statistics tracked to how agencies record them
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As environmental justice becomes more mainstream, scientists have teamed up with sociologists and climate anthropologists to explore the effects of climate change on society.
While the community has often viewed environmental issues through a scientific lens, it is important to establish how they affect marginalized groups. People of color and members of lower socioeconomic status tend to bear the brunt of air and water pollution and natural disasters caused by global warming.
During periods of major industrial development, companies have exploited the earth’s resources. Although the economy experiences exponential growth, the capital fails to flow to low-income residents.
Instead of enjoying a period of prosperity, they encounter issues such as chronic illness, lack of affordable housing, unsanitary living and working conditions, intergenerational poverty, and more. In the midst of booming businesses, disenfranchised populations continue to suffer.