THE COVID-19 vaccination process has been accompanied by a discussion on the global inequalities in accessing health services from its very early days.
While the dominant rhetoric among international actors stresses the need to reach the developing world, delivering necessary services to disadvantaged groups within developed countries is a significant challenge.
The current situation reveals that, if not scrupulously channeled in the opposite direction, vaccination takes place in line with the existing horizontal inequalities in various countries, potentially exacerbating the already precarious situation of ethnic or religious minorities. Under the current policies of developed countries, vaccination has become yet another cause of rising inequality.
On the other hand, the actions taken by a few exceptional governments became outliers within the general trend, demonstrating that, if effectively managed, it is actually possible to carry out public vaccination in a way that overcomes current horizontal disparities in these societies.
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