Chlamydial Infections

Sykes, Jane E.

doi:10.1002/9780470690727.ch27

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The Domestic Preference In the International Right To Health1

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“…116 The nature of existing political and constitutional systems support this interpretation: national (or, in the case of the European Union, supranational) authorities must respond and are directly accountable to their own population. 117 Powerful mechanisms, not just legal ones, stand ready rising from this responsibility: If national authorities do not take convincing steps, they risk eliciting the wrath of their population. That is the basic logic of national political accountability.…”

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The Role of International Law in Vaccinating Against COVID-19: Appraising the COVAX Initiative

Bogdandy¹,

Villarreal²

2021

ZaöRV / HJIL

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Finally, there are approved vaccines against COVID-19, but they will be certainly scarce at first. As a result, vaccine nationalism is rampant. However, for considerations of self-interest, solidarity as well as of international law, national governments should also cater for the health of other countries’ populations. This article presents the main legal instruments of vaccine nationalism as well as the COVAX Initiative as an instrument for a fairer global distribution of the life-saving medicine. An analysis of the international right to health shows the normative underpinnings of COVAX and the promise it holds for sustainable solidarity.

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confidence: 99%