ArticleBritish journal of politics & international relations2023
COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and the failure of global cooperation.
Article in British journal of politics & international relations, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of gross domestic product with equitable access to childhood vaccines in 195 countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2025Pooled it
- Competing Theories on Global and Regional Vaccine Inequities: A Scoping Literature Review Within the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Vaccines · 2025Review
- A qualitative analysis exploring barriers and enablers to distribution, delivery, and access to COVID-19 vaccines in Botswana.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Advancing Immunization in Africa: Overcoming Challenges to Achieve the 2030 Global Immunization Targets.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2024Review
- The complexities of global health negotiations: Power dynamics and the politics of the pandemic agreement.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- 'Anarchist technologies': Anarchism, cybernetics and mutual aid in community responses to the COVID-19 crisis.Organization (London, England) · 2023Article
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Abstract
The equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is one of the most important tests of global cooperation that the world has faced in recent decades. Collectively, global leaders failed that crucible abysmally, creating a 'vaccine apartheid' that divided the world according to income into countries with widespread access and those without. Why, given that leaders were fully aware of the risks and injustice of vaccine inequity, did governments of wealthy countries hoard doses, impede the expansion of vaccine manufacturing and otherwise prevent equitable access to vaccines? We argue that their decisions to act selfishly are best explained by governments' accountability to domestic constituencies, their lack of leadership and commitment to multilateralism and their adoption of short-term perspectives, as well as their unwillingness to curb the influence of profit-oriented global pharmaceutical companies and, to a certain extent, of an additional private actor, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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