ABSTRACT:
Infectious diseases such as cholera remain pressing global health challenges that are deeply entangled with poverty, increasing climate change, and fragile health infrastructures. While their epidemiology and treatment are well studied, less attention has been paid to the ethical-legal questions that arise when novel medical technologies are introduced in low-resource settings. This article argues that cholera, beyond being a biomedical threat, exemplifies the urgent need for a new normative framework: one that combines compliance with international regulatory standards with a human rights-based and decolonial approach to health innovation.