Global health Initiatives as a ‘Drunken Boat’: The Meningitis Vaccines Project Case Study
In: Medicine Anthropology Theory, Jg. 8 (2021), Heft 1, S. 1-12
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Based on an analysis of the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), a public-private partnership (PPP) set up to introduce the MenAfriVac® vaccine in African countries, this article examines the failures of an accelerated disease control programme that targeted a highly infectious disease. I argue that the integration of MenAfriVac® into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Expanded Programme on Immunisation had the effect of reinforcing inequalities in access, in particular during epidemic emergencies. I will also show how vaccine shortages during an outbreak in Niger led to political tensions and to the emergence of a parallel and unregulated ‘black market’ of vaccines.
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Global health Initiatives as a ‘Drunken Boat’: The Meningitis Vaccines Project Case Study
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Oumy Baala Thiongane |
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Zeitschrift: | Medicine Anthropology Theory, Jg. 8 (2021), Heft 1, S. 1-12 |
Veröffentlichung: | University of Edinburgh Library, 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 2405-691X (print) |
DOI: | 10.17157/mat.8.1.5228 |
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