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The Peruvian COVID-19 vaccine scandal and re-thinking the path to public trust.

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dc.contributor.author Perez-Brumer, Amaya
dc.contributor.author Silva-Santisteban Portella, Alfonso Alberto
dc.date.accessioned 2022-02-01T21:18:29Z
dc.date.available 2022-02-01T21:18:29Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11326
dc.description.abstract In February 2021, the Peruvian 'vaccinegate' scandal broke when the media reported that nearly 500 experimental doses of an ongoing COVID-19 trial were given to key individuals not enrolled in the trial. Indeed, vaccine doses were administered to leading politicians, such as the former President and his wife, and other high-level health officials and academic leaders at the universities overseeing ethical compliance and administration of the trial. The 'vaccinegate' scandal in Peru is but one example of how the lack of a coordinated global response to COVID-19 has allowed countries to act in the best interest of some, ultimately, failing to secure a democratic approach to the right to health for all during a global pandemic. While Peruvian vaccinegate is an example of the egregious use of power to further cronyism amid fear and mounting COVID-19 related death, unfortunately, it is not an anomaly. We argue that the sensationalisation of the event has distracted from the existing precarious health system in Peru and the ways in which long-existing abuses of power evident prior to the pandemic limit a just response to it en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Taylor and Francis
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Public Health
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.subject vaccine equity en_US
dc.subject corruption en_US
dc.subject global health justice en_US
dc.subject politics of COVID-19 en_US
dc.title The Peruvian COVID-19 vaccine scandal and re-thinking the path to public trust. en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.2001670
dc.relation.issn 1744-1706


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