Financing the right to health

What is it about?

Scholarship on international health law is currently pushing the boundaries while taking stock of achievements made over the past few decades. However despite the forward thinking approach of scholars working in the field of global health one area remains a stumbling block in the path to achieving the right to health universally: the financing of heath. This paper uses the book Global Health Law by Larry Gostin to reflect and take stock of the fiscal support provided to the right to health from both a global and an African perspective. It then sets out the key fiscal challenges facing global and African health and proposes an innovative solution for consideration: use of the domestic principles of tax to design the global health financing system.

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Why is it important?

Rights require resources and not just any kind of resources but financial resources. Without adequate budgets we cannot speak of financing the right to health nor achieving the health related SGDs. This paper sets the stage for discussing whether there is a need to have a global treaty on health law and its financing.