Global Health and Foreign Policy

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 127Global health and foreign policy, published in 2014.

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7 versions · 2009–2015

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Development Policy Financial Resources Foreign Policy Health Insurance Health Policy Partnership Sustainable Development

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Takes note with appreciation of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Director General of the World Health Organization on global health and foreign policy;

Reiterates the call for more attention to health as an important cross-cutting policy issue on the international agenda, as it is a precondition for and an outcome and indicator of all three dimensions of sustainable development, and for recognition that global health challenges require concerted and sustained efforts;

Urges Member States to continue to consider health issues in the formulation of foreign policy;

Calls for enhanced partnerships by Member States and other relevant stakeholders, from the public and private sectors, including civil society and academia, to improve health for all, in particular by supporting the development of sustainable and comprehensive health systems, ensuring universal access to quality health services, fostering innovation to develop to meet current and future health needs and promoting health throughout the life course;

Emphasizes that partnerships for global health should be guided by the principles of national ownership, focus on results and effectiveness, transparency, shared responsibility, mutual accountability, inclusiveness and sustainability;

Calls upon Member States to promote and strengthen, as appropriate, their dialogue with the private sector, as well as with civil society actors and academia, in order to maximize their engagement and contribution to solving global health challenges, while at the same time safeguarding public health interests from undue influence by any form of real, perceived or potential conflict of interest, through the management of risk, the strengthening of due diligence and accountability and the increasing of the transparency of engagement;

Reaffirms the role of the World Health Organization as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work, in accordance with its constitution, and notes the ongoing discussion on partnerships and engagement with non-State actors in the context of the World Health Organization reform;

Encourages Member States and partnerships for global health to consider health in a holistic manner, to adopt a multisectoral approach, to act on economic, social and environmental determinants in the final push towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and to pave the way towards the post-2015 development agenda;

Urges Member States to honour their commitments towards agreed health targets and goals and to sustain and accelerate efforts towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the health-related Goals, noting in particular the relevance of, inter alia, the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS,Error: Reference source not found the 2011 political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases,Error: Reference source not found the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, adopted in Cairo in September 1994,Error: Reference source not found the key actions for the further implementation of the Programme of ActionError: Reference source not found and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action;Error: Reference source not found

Also urges Member States to honour the commitments made in the initiative of the Secretary-General on saving 4.6 million children and mothers in 1,000 days;

Encourages Member States and all stakeholders to give appropriate consideration to the importance of health issues in the elaboration of the post-2015 development agenda and due consideration, in particular, to universal health coverage, the health-related Millennium Development Goals and non-communicable diseases;

Calls upon partnerships for global health to support Member States in carrying out their responsibilities to accelerate the transition towards universal health coverage, which implies that all people have access, without discrimination, to nationally determined sets of the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative basic health services needed and essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines, especially through the promotion of primary health care, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the users to financial hardship, with a specific emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population;

Encourages Member States to strengthen and improve the quality of health systems, which requires the enhancement of, inter alia, health financing, health workforces, access to medicines and vaccines, including procurement, distribution and availability, infrastructure, information systems, service delivery and political will in leadership and governance, and to promote equity, and also encourages partnerships for global health to enhance their support for Member States in this regard;

Encourages Member States and relevant stakeholders to consider voluntary innovative financing mechanisms as a positive contribution to assist developing countries in mobilizing additional resources for health development on a sustainable, predictable and voluntary basis, and emphasizes that such financing should supplement and not be a substitute for traditional sources of financing;

Encourages Member States to strengthen, as appropriate, mutually beneficial partnerships in research and development on health and to facilitate the development of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and vaccines, medical services and medical devices, as well as other health-related technology and innovation;

Also encourages Member States to promote partnerships for capacity-building in the national regulation of pharmaceuticals and commodities, quality control and supply chain management and, where relevant, to enhance the capacity for national and regional production, especially for essential medicines and equipment;

Recognizes the importance of fostering North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation in showcasing initiatives, exchanging experiences and best practices and building capacity on health, in particular to facilitate the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms for integrated action on health inequities, in line with national priorities;

Calls for the strengthening of the global partnership for development, with an inclusive and people-centred development agenda, to reinforce the commitments of the international community to poverty eradication and sustainable development, while taking into account the fact that challenges in global health still remain and demand persistent attention;

Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director General of the World Health Organization and with relevant institutions, to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, under the item entitled “Global health and foreign policy”, a report on partnerships for global health that assesses and addresses global health governance and the interlinkages between health and all determinants, including social, economic and environmental determinants, and presents recommendations for action to be taken by relevant stakeholders to achieve improved global health governance, taking into account, in particular, human rights, good governance, mutual respect, equity, sustainability, solidarity, shared responsibilities of international community and a people-centred approach.

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