The Proposed Pandemic Treaty and the Challenge of the South for a Robust Diplomacy

Obijiofor Aginam
SouthViews No. 2018 | Link
South Centre, May 19, 2021

The motivation for a pandemic treaty is infallible because of the ‘globalization of public health’ in a rapidly evolving interdependence of nations, societies, and peoples. Notwithstanding the lofty purposes of the proposed pandemic treaty as a tool for effective cooperation by member-states of the WHO to address emerging and re-emerging disease pandemics in an inter-dependent world, the proposal nonetheless raises some structural and procedural conundrums for the Global South. The negotiation of a pandemic treaty should, as a matter of necessity, take into account the asymmetries of World Health Organization member-states and the interests of the Global South.

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The Proposed Pandemic Treaty and the Challenge of the South for a Robust Diplomacy