Why it’s not just global supply holding women back from vaccines
When health care worker Grace Jokudu and her colleagues began distributing the COVID-19 vaccine in Wau, a city in the northwest of South Sudan, they quickly noticed a disparity.
When people came to their clinic with symptoms of COVID-19, they were mostly women. But almost everyone lining up to be vaccinated was a man.
Why, they wondered, weren’t there more women in those lines?
Across South Sudan, women account for of many countries in the Western world, including the United States, where women are more likely than men to be vaccinated, by about 10%, according to figures from late June.
