1. Bolstering Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity in Africa: A move towards self-sufficiency
- Author:
- Agnes Binagwaho, Praise Mutesi, and Kedest Mathewos
- Publication Date:
- 09-2021
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Brown Journal of World Affairs
- Institution:
- Brown Journal of World Affairs
- Abstract:
- Patterns of marginalization and exclusion of the vulnerable in medicine and public health have become the norm. The vulnerable, especially on the African continent, have been left out of the distribution of life-saving medical and public health interventions. When included, they have always been last in line to receive such interventions. This inequity prevents Africa from stopping the spread of diseases, resulting in preventable deaths. The repercussions of this inequitable distribution are magnified in countries whose health systems have been weakened by centuries of colonization and unfair international policies such as the structural adjustment programs that hollowed out public investment in health systems.1
- Topic:
- Manufacturing, Public Health, Vaccine, Marginalization, and Self-Sufficiency
- Political Geography:
- Africa