AS VIOLAÇÕES DO REGULAMENTO SANITÁRIO INTERNACIONAL PELOS ESTADOS PARTES EM FACE DA PANDEMIA DA COVID-19

Abstract

We continually face threats to global health from new or old infectious diseases that emerge or re-emerge without notice. The COVID-19 pandemic is a prime example of this phenomenon. It spread quickly in the context of globalization with its intense traffic of people, goods and services. It challenged science, shook the world economy and revealed our vulnerability to new infectious diseases and our limited capacity for collaborative international responses to outbreaks of this magnitude. Created with the aim of managing comprehensive and coordinated policy responses in global health, the World Health Organization has shown itself to be inept in its leadership role to combat the pandemic. The most important instrument of international health law for pandemic management is the International Health Regulation (2005), a binding codex signed by 196 nations. Its objective is to regulate the actions that must be taken by States during events of global magnitude. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries adopted measures that violate this regulation. This bibliographic review aims to analyze the violations by party states to the main provisions of the International Health Regulations (2005), possible sanctions for these violations, and the role of the WHO in global health governance. The analysis showed repeated breaches of the 2005 International Health Regulation, their nature, and their potential causes. We also propose suggested measures that can help guide international responses to new