MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY - Cash-strapped Latin American governments face severe geographical, economic and social challenges in trying to ensure life-saving Covid-19 vaccines are made available to vulnerable populations, experts say.
Amazon basin countries had an early taste of the geographical challenges ahead for their vaccination campaigns, after health workers struggled to provide care for three million indigenous people scattered throughout the rainforest, an area almost seven times the size of Spain. The organisation expects to distribute vaccines in the region between March and May next year through Covax, a World Health Organisation initiative to guarantee equal access for impoverished countries.
Lower-income countries such as Bolivia, Haiti, Guyana and several Caribbean island states are betting on the Covax-eligible status to receive vaccines without contributing funds. So are El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, recently battered by Hurricanes Iota and Eta. More on this topic Peru, the Latin American country with the most deaths per million inhabitants , has so far secured 9.5 million vaccines and is negotiating with laboratories to cover 24.5 million of its 31 million inhabitants.
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