Author: Dr. Uche Ngwaba
The pandemic laid bare the cracks in global health: vaccine hoarding, intellectual property barriers, and a focus on power over people. WHO’s Director-General called it “vaccine apartheid.“
Professor Uche Ngwaba, in “Taking ‘Third World’ Lives Seriously,” argues that these inequalities are no accident—they’re rooted in the colonial foundations of global health governance. Drawing on TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law), he calls for decolonizing global health systems to truly prioritize lives in the Global South.
It’s time to rethink the system. Health justice can’t wait.