Type
General Knowledge
Author
Organization
IMC worldwide and Transaid
Published in
2020
Submitted by
IRF
Related theme(s)
COVID-19
Region
Africa (AFR)
Country
All Countries

INSIGHT: Issues related to distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in Sub-Saharan Africa

A new think piece from Transaid, an international transport NGO, explores the challenges of distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to people in Sub-Saharan Africa and proposes some ways to deal with such unprecedented logistical issues.

Bernard Obika, Team Leader of the High-Volume Transport Programme funded by UK Aid commented; ‘There is a consensus that the pandemic has exposed the fragility of transport systems and that they are not as resilient we’d thought. It is by no means clear how the transport system in the most rural areas will respond to the additional demands that will be placed on it by the vaccine distribution.

The full article is available on the HVT website and by clicking the link below:

https://transport-links.com/news/insight-issues-related-to-distribution-of-covid-19-vaccines-in-sub-saharan-africa/