In short, the health crisis makes regional fragmentation visible. What is seen is that the alliances between the different blocs have been partial when it comes to facing the pandemic. Added to this is the fact that one of the instances that has played a leading role in health – the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) – was dissolved and only 3 of the 12 countries have not expressed any intention mobile phone number list of leaving the bloc. CELAC has mobile phone number list tried to assume leadership through the search for a regional cooperation path that would allow it to face local and global health challenges and the defense of universal access to treatments and vaccines for covid-19. However, so far it has not been very successful. In contexts of health crisis, the regional level provides a valuable mobile phone number list opportunity for countries to strengthen their capacities, complement actions, avoid duplicating efforts, and sum up the lessons learned. The regional articulation and agreement could have contributed to more effective responses to face the pandemic. After the experience of Unasur, the pandemic has confirmed that the articulation and coordination of regional mobile phone number list actions at the three levels – national, regional and global – are essential.
At the national level, regional coordination is necessary in order to strengthen local capacities and, especially, to strengthen health systems to meet the demand and cover the need for medical supplies and equipment, a point that has been critical in many countries. of the region in times of pandemic. At the regional level, joint action is required to mobile phone number list articulate and strengthen cross-border cooperation; to guarantee the coordination of flights that transport equipment and, now, vaccines; to exchange data and promote joint mechanisms for the acquisition of inputs. Finally, on a global scale, coordination facilitates greater access to multilateral organizations in order to join forces to act together and negotiate as a block, understanding and defending health as a right.
Joint action also has a background: the possibility of reducing asymmetries, which have been evident in this pandemic crisis and which the limitations mobile phone number list of equitable access to vaccines will reflect more harshly. to guarantee the coordination of flights that transport equipment and, now, vaccines; to exchange data and promote joint mechanisms for the acquisition of inputs.