The Impact of Neocolonialism on India’s COVID-19 Response

In this paper, we analyze the impact of COVID-19 in India and the nation’s shortcomings in responding appropriately to the pandemic. We discuss how international vaccine inequities, rooted in neocolonialism, and the WHO’s broad recommendation of Global North pandemic responses (i.e., lockdowns, nons...

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Autores principales: Shah, Dhruv M., Kulkarni, Mrunmayi, Mathur, Poonam
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35646614
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3587
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description In this paper, we analyze the impact of COVID-19 in India and the nation’s shortcomings in responding appropriately to the pandemic. We discuss how international vaccine inequities, rooted in neocolonialism, and the WHO’s broad recommendation of Global North pandemic responses (i.e., lockdowns, nonspecific social distancing) blunted the effectiveness of India’s COVID-19 response and instead heightened classism, economic turmoil, and unnecessary infection and death from the virus.
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spelling pubmed-91220032022-05-27 The Impact of Neocolonialism on India’s COVID-19 Response Shah, Dhruv M. Kulkarni, Mrunmayi Mathur, Poonam Ann Glob Health Viewpoint In this paper, we analyze the impact of COVID-19 in India and the nation’s shortcomings in responding appropriately to the pandemic. We discuss how international vaccine inequities, rooted in neocolonialism, and the WHO’s broad recommendation of Global North pandemic responses (i.e., lockdowns, nonspecific social distancing) blunted the effectiveness of India’s COVID-19 response and instead heightened classism, economic turmoil, and unnecessary infection and death from the virus. Ubiquity Press 2022-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9122003/ /pubmed/35646614 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3587 Text en Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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