Article on swine flu outbreak and International Health Regulations 2005

An interesting article about the swine flu outbreak and human rights concerns about the right to health (i.e. "nondiscriminatory access to health care services and antiviral drugs") is available online.

David Fidler writes about the IHR 2005 (the International Health Regulations 2005 adopted by WHO) which mandates in article 32 restrictions for travelers, noting limits on "any intervention that infringes on civil and political rights". In his conclusion, he writes that this crisis presents an opportunity to "strengthen compliance with and implementation of the IHR 2005".

David Fidler is a law professor and director of the Center on American and Global Security at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.