Norm conflicts in global health : the case of Indonesia and pandemic influenza preparedness / Una Jakob

The current Covid-19 pandemic highlights the importance of international cooperation in the prevention and containment of infectious diseases. This is true for all pathogens with pandemic potential, including certain influenza viruses, which is why the World Health Organisation (WHO) has maintained a system for monitoring and sharing influenza viruses for decades. In 2007, Indonesia rescinded its cooperation in this system even though experts ascribed a crucial role to Indonesian virus samples in the prevention of a flu pandemic; such a pandemic was at the time feared to be imminent. Indonesia's policy was nurtured inter alia by a growing frustration with inequalities in the existing system in which industrialised countries as well as drug and vaccine producers benefitted from samples provided by countries of the Global South but did not share these benefits adequately with those countries. The new "Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework", concluded in 2011, established benefit-sharing and virus-sharing as principles on an equal footing. It thus reformed the WHO process but also brought to the fore existing tensions and conflicts between various norms and practices: global health cooperation (which requires the sharing of pathogen samples), the protection of intellectual property rights (which is intended to promote innovation and ensure profits), and the protection of genetic resources (which considers pathogens as national resources and requires adequate benefit-sharing in their exploitation). This Working Paper traces Indonesia's policy regarding pandemic influenza preparedness and the reform process within WHO. Moreover, it presents the interlinkages between said norm complexes, which are exacerbated by technological developments in genetic sequencing, as areas that would merit further theoretical and empirical research..

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Erschienen:	Frankfurt am Main: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt ; 2020

Reihe:	PRIF Working Papers / Peace Research Institute Frankfurt/Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung - no. 47

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Becker-Jakob, Una, 1975- [VerfasserIn]
Körperschaft:	Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung [Herausgebendes Organ]

Links:	Volltext [kostenfrei]

Themen:	Erde Gesundheitsfürsorge Gesundheitswesen Global Governance Indonesien Interdependenz Internationale Kooperation Internationale Politik Internationales politisches System Politische Kommunikation Politisches Verhalten

Anmerkungen:	Literaturverzeichnis Seite 17-20

Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)

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PPN (Katalog-ID):	1697742475