Canada has vaccinated nearly 40 per cent of its citizens, an important milestone in the fight against COVID-19. But underlying this success is a concerning aspect of the global vaccine rollout: wealthy countries like Canada have taken the lion\u2019s share of vaccines \u2013 87 per cent, leaving medium- and low-income countries with just 0.2 per cent of the vaccine supply.<\/p>\n
Not only is this a moral concern, with the pandemic ravaging medium- and low-income countries that may struggle with increased health-care demands, it\u2019s also a health concern as new variants emerge from the hardest-hit areas.<\/p>\n
But there is a plan to correct this, and Canada has an opportunity to support it: COVAX, a program designed in early 2020 with the hopes of distributing vaccines globally and equitably.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s guests are Annie Bodmer-Roy, the director of international policy and programs at UNICEF Canada, and Srinivas Murthy, a clinical professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of British Columbia and a consultant with the World Health Organization. They will be speaking about the global inequality in vaccine distribution, and how Canada can support COVAX in its goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canada has vaccinated nearly 40 per cent of its citizens, an important milestone in the fight against COVID-19. But underlying this success is a concerning aspect of the global vaccine rollout: wealthy countries like Canada have taken the lion\u2019s share of vaccines \u2013 87 per cent, leaving medium- and low-income countries with just 0.2 per […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":229022,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[9368,9360,9377],"tags":[8471,9095,9310],"irpp-category":[4217,4342,4277,4286],"section":[],"irpp-tag":[],"class_list":["post-229028","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts-fr","category-international","category-sante","tag-covid-19-fr","tag-inegalites","tag-vaccination","irpp-category-affaires-internationales","irpp-category-covid-19","irpp-category-discrimination-fr","irpp-category-sante"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n