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COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Sharing

Countries that are advanced in their vaccination programmes are seeing cases of COVID-19 decline, hospitalisations decrease and early signs of some kind of normality resume. However, the global picture is far more concerning. We are seeing the traumatic effects of the terrible surge of COVID-19 in South Asia – a surge which has also severely impacted global vaccine supplies – and its impact on children’s education, health and protection. The longer health workers, teachers and social workers remain unprotected against COVID-19, the greater the risk to their health, and the health, safety and opportunities for children. Yet unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines puts everyone at risk. Children in lower income countries rely on healthy parents, health workers, teachers and social workers as much as children in wealthy countries. The longer the virus continues to spread unchecked, the higher the risk of more deadly or contagious variants emerging. Ahead of the G7 summit, UNICEF is calling on wealthy countries to collectively commit to sharing available COVID-19 vaccines now. Sharing doses over the next few weeks will allow COVAX to distribute vaccines to the world’s lower income countries as quickly as possible. Only together can we ensure vaccines are available to people in all countries, and not just the privileged few.

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See activation toolkit: https://unicef.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=868bc193d9fcfe837d3fb7bc3&id=c2be65481e&e=e0cf42192c

See the Voices of Youth explainer "Why donating doses can help make COVID-19 vaccines available to all": https://www.voicesofyouth.org/campaign/why-donating-doses-can-help-make-covid-19-vaccines-available-all

See COVID-19 vaccines: 5 reasons why dose donations are essential:
https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines-why-dose-donations-are-essential?fbclid=IwAR1Y2YDMLj919S_uBrbapRr_gNCVs0pKvb0FYvgzrSVdKhbcai8OrmhFgQ8