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What Is Vaccine Equity?
Why Global Citizens Should Care
Vaccine equity the equitable distribution of vaccines worldwide is essential to ending infectious diseases that spread rapidly between countries. The United Nations’ Global Goal 3 calls for good health and well-being for all, which cannot be achieved if countries adopt a mentality of vaccine nationalism rather than supporting the global response. You can join us in taking action on this issue here.
Within a year of the first reported case of COVID-19, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine became the first fully tested immunization to be approved for emergency use against the deadly virus.
The lightning-speed development and approval of the vaccine was an extraordinary success in global health, and was received internationally with a sigh of relief. But the approval of a safe and effective vaccine is only the first step to ending the pandemic. The next is to produce enough vaccines to immunize the majority of the world s pop
2021 Conference Series: Renewing the U.S. Immunization Agenda
Friday, January 29, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
As the world passes one year of the coronavirus pandemic, multiple vaccine candidates have completed phase III trials, been approved, and are being prepared for global delivery. But amid what promises to be an unprecedented global introduction effort, countries are still working to restore routine immunization services and campaigns that had been disrupted or suspended earlier in the pandemic, leaving many children at risk of other outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. Despite evidence of the value of routine immunization services, health professionals continue to grapple with the diversion of resources to the Covid-19 response, rising costs, the slowdown of supply chains, and community fear and mistrust. To what extent has the pandemic affected country experiences with routine vaccination? And what are the prospects for revitalizing progress on routine immunization coverag