Haitian Health Minister Marie Greta Roy formally stated in writing to the Gavi Vaccine Alliance that the country rejects the AstraZeneca compound and requested that the country provide a different preparation more adapted to reality.
This was announced by the Haitian Minister of Culture and Communications, Pradel Henríquez, who made the announcement in a note on social networks.
The country has written to the aforementioned entity responsible for the distribution of anticovid vaccines in poor countries “to reject the AstraZeneca vaccine and ask them to replace it with a vaccine more adapted to Haiti.”
Pradel also indicated that there are other vaccines the country can receive, such as those manufactured by Johnson & Johnson laboratories or Moderna. However, the necessary cooling systems for Pfizer’s vaccine are lacking.
“In summary, the Haitian authorities have not rejected the idea of a vaccine to protect our population from covid-19, they just want to negotiate a very different vaccine than AstraZeneca,” the note concludes.
Haiti is one of four countries in the world that has not yet started to vaccinate against Covid-19, but the government has rejected the AstraZeneca vaccine for fear that the population will reject it after the cases of thrombi discovered in Europe, according to what it told. Efe. A source from the Executive last Tuesday.
Haiti is one of 92 low-income countries to have access to the covid-19 vaccine through Gavi’s Covax AMC mechanism which, like the rest of the participating countries, has allocated a number of doses to the Caribbean nation. Vaccinate 20% of the population by the end of 2021.
In the first round of Covax vaccine assignment, 756,000 doses manufactured by the Serum Institute of India under license from AstraZeneca had been assigned to Haiti.