Covid Vaccine Body Accused Of Having A Colonial Mindset
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A top African Union official has told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme that the organisation set up to distribute coronavirus vaccines to poorer nations was established with a very...
show moreThe co-chair of the AU’s Vaccine Delivery Alliance, Dr Ayoade Alakija says the initial problem with Covax is that it was not inclusive, it was a very colonial mindset as it was set up.
She says Auvda would have said it wanted to vaccinate between 60% and 80% of Africa's population.
She says Covax however seems to think that covering 20% of the population was enough and the global vaccine sharing scheme was not the sole solution.
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