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The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism
The call to strengthen global health governance against future outbreaks through a binding treaty on pandemics has attracted global attention and opinion. Yet, few of these perspectives have reflected the voices from early career global health professionals in Africa. We share our perspectives on th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9980354/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36854490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-011431 |
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author | Evaborhene, Nelson Aghogho Udokanma, Echezona Ejike Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo Okorie, Chinonso Emmanuel Kafuko, Zacharia Conde, Hawa Marguerite Waliaula, Cynthia Mburu, Sheila |
author_facet | Evaborhene, Nelson Aghogho Udokanma, Echezona Ejike Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo Okorie, Chinonso Emmanuel Kafuko, Zacharia Conde, Hawa Marguerite Waliaula, Cynthia Mburu, Sheila |
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description | The call to strengthen global health governance against future outbreaks through a binding treaty on pandemics has attracted global attention and opinion. Yet, few of these perspectives have reflected the voices from early career global health professionals in Africa. We share our perspectives on the Pandemic Treaty, and specifically our scepticism on the limitations of the current top-down approach of the treaty, and the need for the treaty to centre equity, transparency and fairness to ensure equitable and effective cooperation in response to global health emergencies. We also highlight the challenges intergovernmental organisations for health faced in coordinating nation states during the COVID-19 crisis and how a Pandemic Treaty would address these challenges. We argue that lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic provide a critical opportunity to strengthen regional institutions in Africa—particularly in a multipolar world with huge disparities in power and resources. However, addressing these challenges and achieving this transformation may not be easy. Fiscal space in many countries remains constrained now more than ever. New tools such as the Pandemic Fund should be designed in ways that consider the specific needs and capacities of countries. Therefore, strengthening countries’ capacities overall requires an increase in domestic investment. This paper calls for wider structural reforms such as debt restructuring among other tools to strengthen countries’ capacities. |
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spelling | pubmed-99803542023-03-03 The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism Evaborhene, Nelson Aghogho Udokanma, Echezona Ejike Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo Okorie, Chinonso Emmanuel Kafuko, Zacharia Conde, Hawa Marguerite Waliaula, Cynthia Mburu, Sheila BMJ Glob Health Analysis The call to strengthen global health governance against future outbreaks through a binding treaty on pandemics has attracted global attention and opinion. Yet, few of these perspectives have reflected the voices from early career global health professionals in Africa. We share our perspectives on the Pandemic Treaty, and specifically our scepticism on the limitations of the current top-down approach of the treaty, and the need for the treaty to centre equity, transparency and fairness to ensure equitable and effective cooperation in response to global health emergencies. We also highlight the challenges intergovernmental organisations for health faced in coordinating nation states during the COVID-19 crisis and how a Pandemic Treaty would address these challenges. We argue that lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic provide a critical opportunity to strengthen regional institutions in Africa—particularly in a multipolar world with huge disparities in power and resources. However, addressing these challenges and achieving this transformation may not be easy. Fiscal space in many countries remains constrained now more than ever. New tools such as the Pandemic Fund should be designed in ways that consider the specific needs and capacities of countries. Therefore, strengthening countries’ capacities overall requires an increase in domestic investment. This paper calls for wider structural reforms such as debt restructuring among other tools to strengthen countries’ capacities. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9980354/ /pubmed/36854490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-011431 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Analysis Evaborhene, Nelson Aghogho Udokanma, Echezona Ejike Adebisi, Yusuff Adebayo Okorie, Chinonso Emmanuel Kafuko, Zacharia Conde, Hawa Marguerite Waliaula, Cynthia Mburu, Sheila The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism |
title | The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism |
title_full | The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism |
title_fullStr | The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism |
title_full_unstemmed | The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism |
title_short | The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons: our scepticism |
title_sort | pandemic treaty, the pandemic fund, and the global commons: our scepticism |
topic | Analysis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9980354/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36854490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-011431 |
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