Lucien Hordijk, Priti Patnaik, freelance journalistsAmsterdam and Genevalucienhordijk{at}gmail.compatnaik.reporting{at}gmail.comCovid vaccine fairness stays out of attain, as rich nations drag their ft on donations, and vaccine shares go their use-by dates, write Lucien Hordijk and Priti PatnaikOn 21 December 2021, a truck piled with brown cardboard bins drove to the Goja garbage dump in Abuja, Nigeria. Contained in the bins have been 1,000,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine, which have been tipped onto the heap, amongst soiled plastic baggage and papers.Two months earlier, Nigeria had agreed to obtain 2.6 million doses of the vaccine from the Covax facility, an initiative set as much as distribute covid-19 vaccines equitably worldwide. The vaccines, largely coming from Europe, had been near expiry. “A few of these vaccines got here in with a shelf lifetime of about 4 weeks,” mentioned Faisal Shaibu, a Nigerian authorities official tasked with organising vaccination of the nation’s 200 million inhabitants towards covid-19. Following high quality inspections and regional allocations, Nigeria administered 1.53 million doses. However the remainder have been thrown away.