Transnistria's public health system and SARS-CoV-2: The challenges of an unrecognized state facing a global pandemic

Abstract The paper presents a comprehensive overview of the public health system in separatist Trasnistrian region Moldova, an analytically unorthodox undertaking, as this entails looking at fragile breakaway state-like entity, set circumstances that — rather inevitably, it seems may define certain basic features hand. Attention will be dedicated to outlining main challenges region's faces, for instance, concerning spread infectious diseases such tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and SARS-CoV-2. Studying impact coronavirus pandemic can especially serve litmus test available capacities Transnistria deal with challenges: facing novel pathogen, related disease epidemic which threaten overburden local institutions. A key question examined here, through example Transnistria, is degree international support increasing cooperation internationally recognized state Moldova are indispensable security unrecognized state.