Vaccine equity:The need of the hour in the face of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

• 作者: Mustafa Hussain Ansari Abdullahi Tunde Aborode Youssef Aboufandi Juveriya Hassan Tarun Kumar Suvvari Venkataramana Kandi
• 来源期刊: 亚太热带医药杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2022,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: Letters to Editor
• 页码范围: 95-96
• 页数: 2页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.4103/1995-7645.338445

摘要

Equity is not equality.The word'equity'focuses on the individual and takes a need-based approach,whereas'equality'treats everyone equally irrespective of the rationale.Vaccine equity aims to provide equal access to vaccines to people all around the globe[1].The World Health Organization(WHO)had set a target for each country for vaccinating 40％of their population by the end of this year,but many countries are far off from the target[1].Low-and middle-income countries(LMIC),with some exceptions,suffer from a polarisation of vaccinations rates,with the latter suffering the most[1,2].