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AS A nurse at a private clinic, Jubilee Ngwenya had a front-row seat to the fear the coronavirus pandemic wrought. Yet when vaccine doses from China arrived here in February, the 27-year-old hesitated.
Could she trust a vaccine from the country where the pandemic started? One that, at the time, hadn’t earned the World Health Organization’s approval? No, she decided.
“Since there are now other alternative vaccines, I might reconsider,” she says.
As Zimbabwe rolls out its inoculation campaign, the country faces a significant hurdle: a deep distrust of Beijing. Although Zimbabwe has added Russian and Indian vaccines to its stockpile, China’s Sinovac and Sinopharm still constitute more than 90% of its doses. That’s made many people health care workers included wary of inoculation.
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MUMBAI: Pressure is mounting on rich nations, like the US to urgently address the global Covid-19 vaccine crisis, and worldwide inequities in availability of vaccines. American leadership is required to ensure universal global access to high-quality and safe vaccines, leaders across internationally-reputed organizations said.
The US should support rapid vaccine distribution and administration, and build a sustainable global network of vaccine manufacturing capacity, they said.
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April has been a cruel month for North Carolina’s transgender community.
The General Assembly has debated bills that would exclude them from sports teams, bar them from receiving gender-transforming surgery before they’re 21, and allow doctors to discriminate against them.
These crises are linked, LGBTQ advocates say. Anti-transgender rhetoric and legislation drives the rising violence in North Carolina and nationwide against transgender people, many of whom already face staggering health and social inequities.
“Being a Black trans woman in America means you’re far more likely to experience inequities and prejudice, including extreme poverty and systemic, state-sanctioned violence and murder,” said Rebby Kern, director of education policy for Equality NC, at a press conference this week.