SunStar Editorial: Securing vaccine equity
RAISE VACCINE EQ. Government and private stakeholders should go to the communities to raise education and awareness about the Covid-19 vaccines. Reducing equity in immunization is prioritized by the World Health Organization in its “holistic efforts” from 2019 to 2023 to “help communities achieve their full health potential regardless of demographic, social, economic or geographic strata.” (SunStar file)
+ NOBODY is left behind. This is equity in plain terms.
Upholding the principle of equity is a challenge for society, more so equity in immunization, particularly to inoculate people against infection of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
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South African govt earlier this week announced that they will be getting one million doses of covid vaccine in January and 500,000 doses in February of the oxford University-Astrazeneca vaccine COVISHIELD from Pune-based Serum Institute of India.
Commercial supplies begin seven days after India began its own countrywide vaccination program in which almost 10 lakh Indian nations have been vaccinated. On Wednesday began gifting made in India vaccines to countries in the region as part of its neighbourhood first policy.
Seven countries are getting vaccines under what is being referred to as New Delhi s vaccine diplomacy. These are Bhutan (150,000), Maldives (100,000), Nepal (One million), Bangladesh (2 million), Myanmar (1.5 M), Seychelles (50,000), Mauritius (100,000), with the last three countries will get on Friday. Regulatory approvals from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka is awaited even as officials from both sides are in touch for India s vaccine.
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