KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 10 2022 (IPS) – The global consensus about an international treaty on pandemic prevention is certainly a milestone towards the creation of a global health security framework.
A new treaty is likely to bind the member states to higher standards of compliance, especially if a global accountability mechanism is also enforced.
Consider the disregard towards the International Health Regulations (2005), IHRs, the only tool available to control what in jargon is referred as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
Despite numerous review exercises, some of which taken more than a decade ago in the aftermath of the first…