Calculating Sub-Saharan Africa's COVID vaccination financing gap
Image Launch of Ethiopia’s national COVID-19 vaccine program at Eka Kotebe Hospital in Addis Ababa. (Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia/2021/Nahom Tesfaye). Vaccine rollouts are underway in over 181 countries and territories worldwide, yet only a handful of Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries have started vaccinating their population. Regional access to vaccines is hindered by a worldwide shortage of vaccine production capacity, a race for quick vaccine access by richer countries and a lack of local resources. If developing countries are unable to vaccinate their population against COVID-19, the glob...
Source: worldbank.org