TY - JOUR
T1 - Solidarity, Afro-communitarianism, and COVID-19 vaccination
AU - Ewuoso, Cornelius
AU - Obengo, Tom
AU - Atuire, Caesar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper appeals to the Afro-communitarian conceptions of solidarity to think critically about the duty (if any and in what ways) to vaccinate. Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx [1] describe solidarity as “enacted commitment to carry the costs (financial, social, emotional, and other contributions) of assisting others with whom a person or persons recognise similarity in a relevant aspect”. In sub-Saharan Africa, one concrete way Africans have enacted this commitment to carry cost is exemplified by the phenomenon of Black tax common in Southern Africa, whereby individuals who are well-off in a family help their indigent relatives.
AB - This paper appeals to the Afro-communitarian conceptions of solidarity to think critically about the duty (if any and in what ways) to vaccinate. Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx [1] describe solidarity as “enacted commitment to carry the costs (financial, social, emotional, and other contributions) of assisting others with whom a person or persons recognise similarity in a relevant aspect”. In sub-Saharan Africa, one concrete way Africans have enacted this commitment to carry cost is exemplified by the phenomenon of Black tax common in Southern Africa, whereby individuals who are well-off in a family help their indigent relatives.
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U2 - 10.7189/jogh.12.03046
DO - 10.7189/jogh.12.03046
M3 - Article
C2 - 35938906
AN - SCOPUS:85135551539
SN - 2047-2978
VL - 12
JO - Journal of Global Health
JF - Journal of Global Health
M1 - 03046
ER -