COVID-19 vaccine: Equity and access for older people

Resource Centre for Elderly (RCE), is running a vaccination awareness campaign and helping the government reach all older people.

We spoke to Vira Tum, Executive Director of HelpAge Cambodia, to find out about the situation in the country and what challenges remain, despite the overall success.

Sanju Thapa Magar from Ageing Nepal tells us about the problems that older people are facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal, including access to vaccines.

The vaccination programme in Russia is marred in controversy and not universally popular. Confidence in the vaccines is low and the government is resorting to the use of carrots and sticks to encourage people to get vaccinated.

After a long period of official denial that coronavirus exists in Tanzania, the government did a dramatic U-turn on COVID-19 policy. But the country is facing major challenges to obtain enough vaccines and to overcome hesitancy.

Chile has the highest level of COVID vaccinations in Latin America and, at a rate of almost 90%, one of the best in the world. Learne about their secret weapon in the fight against COVID-19: the Geromobile.

COVID-19 vaccination offers a beacon of hope. But this hope will only be fulfilled when those most at risk are vaccinated.

The RCCE Collective has published a Data4Action report on COVID-19 vaccination among older people in the East and Southern Africa region.

This project was designed to improve uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in Tanzania across all the priority target groups including older people.