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As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 75 this month, we must urgently reclaim the human rights narrative in global health and defend civic space, argue Rajat Khosla and Katri Bertram
> “If access to healthcare is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?” Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist and physician
For global health, 2023 has been a particularly challenging year. Armed conflicts and authoritarian nationalist leadership are on the rise, fiscal space and budgets for health are shrinking, and health related climate risks are growing.1 Political leaders’ responses to opportunities posed by three health related UN high level meetings on pandemics, universal health coverage, and tuberculosis in September, as well as ongoing negotiations on the pandemic accord, haven’t yet produced tangible action. In the worst cases they’ve reinforced nationalist rhetoric and negotiation positions, whereby self-interest and g ....
For the Pandemic Accord to be effective, member states must urgently focus negotiations to define its scope, including its definition of “pandemic,” and ensure the definition avoids the pitfalls of past mistakes, argue Noor Shakfeh, Fifa Rahman, and Katri Bertram
Member states of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB)1 have roughly nine months left before they need to present a draft outcome to the World Health Assembly in May 2024. While their negotiations to date have understandably focused on provisions related to access and benefit-sharing, and distribution of countermeasures, the implementation of these as well as all other provisions will ultimately depend on whether an outbreak meets member states’ negotiated definition of “pandemic.”
At a joint meeting in July 2023 with the working group to amend the International Health Regulations (WGIHR),2 member states met to discuss the scope of the accord, including the definition of a “pandemic.” Though ....
To improve health outcomes for all people, including the individual issues we are passionate about, we need to understand the importance of bigger systemic changes and other issues that impact our focus area. We need to read beyond our narrow areas, meet with people with diverse expertise and experiences, and learn how to shape a broader agenda. ....