A/RES/73/131
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 129
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.37)]
73/131.
Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level
meeting on universal health coverage
The General Assembly,
Recognizing that, through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development 1 and its Sustainable Development Goals in September 2015, Heads of
State and Government made a bold commitment to achieve universal health coverage
by 2030, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health -care
services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essen tial medicines and
vaccines for all,
Recalling its resolution 71/159 of 15 December 2016, entitled “Global health
and foreign policy: health employment and economic growth”, which underlined the
primary responsibility of Member States to accelerate the transition towards universal
health coverage,
Recalling also its resolution 72/139 of 12 December 2017, entitled “Global
health and foreign policy: addressing the health of the most vulnerable for an
inclusive society”, in which it decided to hold a high-level meeting in 2019 on
universal health coverage,
Recalling further its resolution 67/81 of 12 December 2012, entitled “Global
health and foreign policy”, in which it recognized the responsibility of Governments
to urgently and significantly scale up efforts to accelerate the transition towards
universal access to affordable and quality health-care services, and that effective and
financially sustainable implementation of universal health coverage is based on a
resilient and responsive health system, and reaffirming the primary responsibility of
Member States to determine and promote their own paths towards achieving universal
health coverage,
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