Topic: 2025 – Vaccine Access and Distribution
Country: Canada
Delegate Name: Priya Mahabir
Country: Canada
Delegate: Priya Mahabir
School: Forest Hill Central High School
Committee: WHO – ECOSOC
Topic: Vaccine Access and Distribution
20% of children in the world don’t have access to vaccines; there are approximately four million child deaths every year due to not being able to access vaccines. Roughly, around seventeen percent of Canadians didn’t receive a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, around 7.9 million people. Although internationally, virus import causes outbreaks, but also a decline in vaccine rates to contain those outbreaks. In 2000, Canada had a 96% coverage for the first dose of the measles-containing vaccine (MCV1), but as of 2023, 87% of adults have been able to receive the first dosage, meaning the vaccine rate has gone down 9% which is around 3.7 million people.
Canada is trying to make vaccines available at no cost to people in need who can’t afford them. By using the collaborative federal, provincial, and territorial (F/P/T) framework, even though it does much more than public health, it is still a priority to have public health care accessible to everyone. To address access to all pertinent vaccines, the government makes an effort through multi-layered regulation, prioritization, and distribution. Instead of prioritizing only people who want it and have money, Canada prioritizes the people who need it: people with health risks, age, essential workers, and anyone vulnerable to any disease needing a vaccine. And for people who can’t afford a vaccine, they can go through the publicly funded healthcare system, so they can not only get a vaccine but a quality one that actually works.
With the vaccine usage going down, Canadians have been hesitant about getting vaccinated since the COVID-19 vaccines first came out. As a result, we prioritize advertising to have more people take the vaccine because the public healthcare system provides quality medicine for free. As hard as it is to give every country a public healthcare system, it’s worth the cost. We want everyone to be fully vaccinated and covered when they have a health problem.
Sources:
https://www.canada.ca › services › vaccination-coverage
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X25005468#:~:text=In%20Canada%2C%20the%20federal%20government,persist%20%5B27%2C28%5D.
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