Vaccines, information and the ongoing crisis of affordability for the urban poor

Vaccines, information and the ongoing crisis of affordability for the urban poor

Published Jan 2020

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D. Mitlin, F. Haddis, J. Makau, G. Masimba Nyama, R. Molokoane

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As news on Covid-19 vaccines spreads good cheer in the wealthier countries of the global North, thoughts turn to when we will be able to return to normal life. Meanwhile governments are anxiously assessing the complications of establishing mass vaccination programmes and whether vaccine hesitancy could reduce take up and threaten the recovery. For those living in informal settlements across the global South, the potential for the vaccine to herald recovery seems very different.

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