GLOBAL FOCUS • VACCINE INEQUITY
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Vaccine inequity
AUTHOR: JULIA TERPINSKA
As vaccination systems against SARS-Cov-2 are rolling out in developed countries, the differences between the access to equitable healthcare around the world become more striking than ever. With the ambitious plans of the EU Commission to vaccinate 70% of the EU adult population by summer 20211, and the hopes of containing the spread in the US by fall 20212, developed countries hold the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in sight. Yet, questions about systemic privilege and vaccine inequity have blatantly started to be unveiled once more. The devastating example spotlights the humanitarian crisis and medical apartheid in the Gaza Strip, a part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory under the control of the State of Israel.
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medicor • 2021 | ISSUE 1
