The Regulation of Planetary Health Challenges: A Co-Benefits Approach for AMR and WASH

Q3 Social Sciences

Environmental Policy and Law Pub Date : 2022-06-16 DOI:10.3233/epl-219040

Philippe Cullet, L. Bhullar

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Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a global public health challenge. It has been examined through various angles, but the link between AMR and access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) or lack thereof has received little attention. Both AMR and WASH relate directly to the realization of the rights to health, water, and sanitation. In addition, both can affect the enjoyment of the right to the environment. AMR is particularly complex from a rights perspective. Access to medicines contributes significantly to the realization of the right to health. At the same time, AMR affects the poorer sections of society who have disproportionately less access to medicines and to WASH. Rights, equality and justice should thus be at the centre of the development and implementation of law and policy concerning AMR and WASH. As we celebrate 50 years of international environmental law, it is crucial to ask some hard questions concerning the inter-sectional and cross-sectoral dimensions of AMR and WASH from the point of view of rights, equality, and justice. Linking the two would bring various co-benefits that the prevailing silo mentality has prevented.

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管理地球健康挑战:抗微生物药物耐药性和讲卫生的共同利益方针

抗微生物耐药性是一个全球性的公共卫生挑战。人们从各个角度对其进行了研究，但AMR与获得水、环境卫生和个人卫生（WASH）之间的联系或缺乏联系很少受到关注。AMR和讲卫生运动都直接关系到健康、水和环境卫生权利的实现。此外，两者都可能影响享有环境权。从权利角度来看，AMR特别复杂。获得药品大大有助于实现健康权。与此同时，AMR影响到社会中较贫穷的阶层，他们获得药品和讲卫生运动的机会不成比例地少。因此，权利、平等和正义应该成为制定和实施AMR和讲卫生的法律和政策的中心。在我们庆祝国际环境法50周年之际，从权利、平等和正义的角度，就AMR和WASH的跨部门和跨部门层面提出一些棘手的问题至关重要。将两者联系起来将带来各种共同的好处，而普遍存在的筒仓心态却阻止了这些好处。

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