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Cooperation in times of COVID-19: realizing the right to health in developing
countries
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Schapper A
; Jenichen A
Z Friedens Konfliktforsch
2020[]; 9
(2
): 417-427
PMID40477255
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In the context of the Coronavirus pandemic, even strong states with considerable
capacities, resources and infrastructure have now realized how difficult it is to
guarantee the right to health for all its citizens. For low-income and weak
states, the spread of COVID-19 intensifies many problems in health care systems
and wider societies. In this forum article, we discuss the international duty to
cooperate in the realization of social rights, like the right to health, as
stipulated by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
We argue that multilevel actor partnerships, in which international
organizations, national governments and local non-state actors pool their
resources, can compensate, at least temporarily, the lack of state capacities and
assume state-like functions in realizing the right to health. Local actors assume
special responsibilities in these partnerships: They provide health care services
to particularly vulnerable groups and can convey information on context-specific
problems of rights-holders to the national government and international
organizations. Drawing on varying examples, such as the Ebola outbreaks in
Sub-Saharan Africa and the efforts of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, we discuss the
potentials of multilevel actor partnerships in realizing the right to health and
managing certain norm collisions at the same time. We also address the critical
issue of their sustainability, especially after international partners withdraw.
Our aim is to raise awareness for the obligation of more capable states to
cooperate in order to address the health situation of vulnerable population
groups in weak states during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
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