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| Shamiso Faith Varaidzo |
The COVID-19 pandemic which has been raging across the globe since December 2019 has aggravated already existing gender inequalities, with an alarming rise in the levels of GBV and women being the majority of care workers both in the public and private spheres. The vaccine roll out is unlikely to be any different with marginalised groups, such as sex workers, women working in the informal sector, older women, women from rural areas, people with disabilities and migrants and refugees, being at particular risk. The global vaccination roll out has laid bare the gross structural, systemic inequalities that exist within and between countries and the deepening divide between the global north and south. Oxfam reports that the covid vaccines have created nine new billionaires with a combined wealth greater than the cost of vaccinating the world’s poorest countries.2 The vaccine rollout is yet another example of how wealth is accumulated by the few at the expense of the masses, putting profit before people, even during an unprecedented global health crisis. |
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