Poverty and Global Health Inequalities: A Case for Vaccine Justice in Nigeria

In line with the underlying principle of the Sustainable Development Goals and to recover from the COVID 19 pandemic, the world needs coordinated global health frameworks and practices that reduce to its barest minimum, health inequalities which affect poverty levels of both individuals and countries. With this as a backdrop, using Dependency theory as theoretical frameworks for analysis, one investigates the relationships between the two development concepts and the power play in the global health scenario to ascertain the effects they share and how these could be used as a frame of reference to address the power play behind the slow rate of vaccine roll-out in tackling the pandemic. With the human right approach, the paper would also elucidate on how health is a human right that should not be politicized but upheld at all times. The study used an analytical research methodology to identify process and analyze the problems at stake. Secondary sources were used. These were materials from relevant authorities on the issues, statistics, and analysis thereof to make inferences that exposed the problems at stake. However, the study showed that rich countries are using their economic might to exclude and deprive the poorer nations of the human right – health. The researcher argues for vaccine justice as the way out of the pandemic in Nigeria.