Decolonising human rights
How intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the Covid-19 vaccine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21881738 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharifah Sekalala (0000-0002-5434-5245, University of Warwick, corresponding author), Lisa Forman (0000-0002-4200-9359, University of Toronto), Timothy Hodgson (0000-0002-0860-8892, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa), Timothy Fish Hodgson, Moses Mulumba (0000-0001-5351-4687, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development), Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa (Makerere University), Benjamin Mason Meier (0000-0002-9870-1387, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | e006169 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMJ Global Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2059-7908 • E-ISSN: 2059-7908 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006169 |
| PMID | 34253631 |
| OpenAlex | W3180102914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 27 |
The recent rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines offers hope in addressing the worst pandemic in a hundred years. However, many countries in the Global South face great difficulties in accessing vaccines, partly because of restrictive intellectual property law. These laws exacerbate both global and domestic inequalities and prevent countries from fully realising the right to health for all their people. Commodification of essential medicines, such as vaccines, pushes poorer countries into extreme debt and reproduces national inequalities that discriminate against marginalised groups. This article explains how a decolonial framing of human rights and public health could contribute to addressing this systemic injustice. We envisage a human rights and global health law framework based on solidarity and international cooperation that focuses funding on long-term goals and frees access to medicines from the restrictions of intellectual property law. This would increase domestic vaccine production, acquisition and distribution capabilities in the Global South
Commodification · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Global health · Health care · Human rights · Inequality · Injustice · Intellectual property · Law and economics · Political science · Public health · Right to health · Sociology · Solidarity · Global Maternal and Child Health · Human Rights and Development · International Human Rights and Reproductive Law · Law · Medicine
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| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |