Keywords
Health Financing; WHO Funding; United States of America; Global Health Governance; Solidarity
Document Type
Article
English Abstract
The withdrawal of the Unites States from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been decried as bad for global health governance and the financing of the WHO. While there are legitimate concerns around the implications of this withdrawal, it is important that the action is framed through a decolonial lens. I argue that global health scholars must not replicate paradigms that problematize the withdrawal as a loss of the global north’s leadership in global health. I argue that the withdrawal offers an opportunity to interrogate the terms upon which global solidarity is built, and to push for the normative primacy of human rights, realized through empowered States driven by a true sense of collectivism for the good of all.
Citation Information
Kolawole, Omowamiwa. "Commentary - Much Ado About Nothing? The Importance of a Decolonial Framing of the Withdrawal of the United States of America from the World Health Organization." The Transnational Human Rights Review 11. (2024) : 57-61. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-4631.1112 https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/thr/vol11/iss1/5
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