COVID-19 and the Right to Health in Africa

Ebenezer Durojaye is a professor of law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His areas of research include human rights, socio-economic rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, and constitutionalism. He is the editor of Litigating the Right to Health in Africa: Challenges and Prospects (Routledge 2015) and co-editor of International Law and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: Lessons from Africa and Beyond (Routledge 2022), Constitutional Resilience and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa (2022), and Sexual Harassment, Law and Human Rights in Africa (2023). Roopanand Mahadew is an associate professor of law at the Department of Law, University of Mauritius, Mauritius. His research and teaching explore international human rights law, public international law, and legal research methodology. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Part I: Conceptual Issues 1. Introduction 2. Discriminatory practices against women in access to health care in Kenya in the context of COVID-19 pandemic 3. The indivisibility and interdependence of human rights in the context of COVID-19 Part II: The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Health Goods and Services 4. The situation of COVID-19 vaccines inequity in developing countries 5. COVID-19 vaccine mandate and the right to health in Africa: Should Africa toe the path of the United States? 6. An intersectional perspective of inequalities in access to COVID-19 vaccines in Africa: The case of migrants 7. A human rights approach to budgetary allocation and the right to health: COVID-19 and health systems in Africa Part III: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Right to Health of Disadvantaged and Marginalised Groups 8. Tale of two pandemics; Interrogating the impact of COVID-19 on access to maternal health care rights for rural women in Kenya and Uganda 9. The impact of COVID 19 on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women in Eswatini 10. Protection of the right to health of minorities and vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic 11. The nexus between COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health of adolescents: Bringing adolescents’ ‘home’ 12. The impact of COVID-19 on health care providers in Africa 13. Impact of COVID-19 to enjoyment of rights to abortion care and the role of transparency 14. The role of regional human rights bodies and national courts in addressing human rights in the context of COVID-19 pandemic