The Minister of Health of Haiti, Casa Greta Roy, formally stated in writing to the Alliance for Vaccines Gavi the country’s rejection of AstraZeneca compost and requested that it provide another more adapted preparation. to their reality.
This was announced by the Haitian Minister of Culture and Communication, Pradel Henríquez, who made the announcement in a note posted on social media.
The country has written to the entity, which is responsible for distributing anti-vaccine 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 that the country is able to receive, such as those manufactured by Johnson & Johnson or Moderna laboratories. However, it lacks the necessary cooling systems for the Pfizer vaccine.
“In short, the Haitian authorities have not rejected the idea of a vaccine to protect our population against covid-19, they simply want to negotiate a vaccine very different from that of AstraZeneca,” the note concludes.
Haiti is one of four countries in the world that has not started vaccinating against covid-19, but its government declined the AstraZeneca vaccine for fear that the population would reject it after cases of thrombosis detected in Europe, he said. in Efe a source from the Executive last Tuesday.
Haiti is one of 92 low-income countries that have gained access to the covid-19 vaccine through the Gavi COVAX AMC Mechanism, which, like the rest of the participating countries, has been assigned a Caribbean nation. amount of doses to vaccinate 20% of its population by the end of 2021.
In the first round of COVAX vaccine allocation, 756,000 doses manufactured by the Serum Institute of India under license from AstraZeneca had been allocated to Haiti.