A paltry 1.8% of vaccines administered globally have gone into arms in #Africa as a whole... And while the role of #COVAX, #US and #China is important to clarify, we have to remember the benchmark... 1.3bn doses ordered, a far cry from 121 million doses delivered so far, by all.
What we saw and experienced 40 years ago with AIDS, that history is being repeated.
As Africa is now facing its third and biggest COVID wave so far, it is getting left behind in the race for vaccine doses.
This vaccine apartheid is unacceptable.
#VaccinEquity#PeoplesVaccine
I am really looking forward to discussing my latest piece, Disposable Lives: COVID-19, Vaccines, and the Uprising on 7.15 @ 9pm EST @ANU_Law.
The paper is available here for d/l: https://t.co/SFxBbPaEn7
Registration details to join us for the seminar👇🏿 https://t.co/1rKzn04lQ3
As COVID-19 continues to extend and intensify its reach into communities, particularly in the Global South, please share this statement. It is by and on behalf of Atlantic Fellows around the world about the acute urgency of achieving vaccine equity.
https://t.co/vGDLLZrlSw
Hearing from Selima Kabir of @BRACJPGSPH that even pre-pandemic in Bangladesh, many women woke up early (before dawn) to get housework completed before going out to work. This burden has increased.
Out of 1.4 billion #COVID19 vaccine doses administered around the world, less than 2% have reached Africa.
Equitable and sustainable vaccine roll-out worldwide is the quickest path towards a fast, and fair recovery for all. https://t.co/s6P76zO1O9
The School of Histories, Languages and Cultures is seeking to appoint a Policy Officer to assist @alex_balch
in developing a Policy Lab on human #trafficking at @LivUni. Learn more: https://t.co/tlyos957Bg
We stan Jemima Pierre: "If one of the legacies of slavery in the Americas was the racialization of enslaved Africans, and indeed the racialization of the modern world, did this legacy of race not also impact the communities on the African continent?"
https://t.co/lkXMssaPUG
Historian Jemima Pierre argues that Whiteness serves as a reference point for Ghanaians’ notions of beauty, Blackness, and power, but Ghanaians remain blind to this. #Rewind. https://t.co/CQFDba0aVQ
This report, supported by @cis_india, is a reminder that consent always reflects power dynamics. RWAs collect the Aadhaar, phone and addresses of domestic workers, with the latter having no agency to decline. No processes in place to ensure privacy either https://t.co/o7eGJNW83t