Global landscape of the COVID-19 vaccination policy: Ensuring equitable access to quality-assured vaccines.

ABSTRACT: Ensuring equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all people has been challenging, hence, establishing relevant vaccination policies is required. This study delineates how vaccination policies have affected equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. A situation survey was conducted in 201 countries and territories through 156 Japanese diplomatic missions abroad to capture the global state of COVID-19 vaccination policies. Questionnaire responses were received from 159 states (79%) as of March 31, 2021, and data from Japan were incorporated into the analysis. All questionnaire items were open-ended, covering the vaccines in use and five vaccination policies such as vaccine eligibility. Results reveal that first, 81 states (51% out of 160) had not started vaccinations as of February 24, 2021, b

SUBMITTER: Wakabayashi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11933979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature