Global health and foreign policy: strengthening health system
resilience through affordable health care for all
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20. Encourages Member States, international organizations and other relevant
stakeholders to work collaboratively at all levels to develop, test and scale up
production of safe, effective, quality, affordable diagnostics, therapeutics, medicines
and vaccines, inter alia and as appropriate through the use of existing mechanisms,
such as the Medicines Patent Pool, to promote equitable, affordable and timely access
to medical products and health technologies in health emergencies;
21. Acknowledges with appreciation the devoted efforts of health workers and
care workers, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and urges Member States
to scale up efforts to promote the recruitment and retention of competent, skilled and
motivated health workers and encourage incentives to secure the equitable
distribution of qualified health workers through national human resource mapping
and planning, to match needs in remote and underserved areas, and in fields with high
demand for services, including by providing decent and safe working co nditions and
appropriate remuneration for health workers working in such areas, while adhering to
the principles of the World Health Organization Global Code of Practice on the
International Recruitment of Health Personnel; 18
22. Calls upon Member States to scale up and accelerate the implementation
of the commitments made in the political declaration on HIV and AIDS of 2016 19 and
the political declaration on tuberculosis of 2018, 20 to sustain the fragile gains towards
achieving the ambitious commitment of ending the epidemics of AIDS and
tuberculosis, as set out in Sustainable Development Goal target 3.3, including by
advancing comprehensive multisectoral and multi-stakeholder responses and
integrated service delivery and ensuring that no one is left behin d;
23. Reaffirms the strong commitments made in the political declarations of
2011 21 and 2018 22 and the outcome document of 2014 23 of the high-level meetings of
the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases,
and in this regard calls upon Member States to promote ambitious multisectoral
national responses and thereby contribute to the overall implementation of the 2030
Agenda, including by integrating, throughout the life course, action on the prevention
and control of non-communicable diseases and the promotion of physical and mental
health and well-being;
24. Stresses the need to address public health issues related to substandard and
falsified medical products by advancing collaboration for building regulatory
capacity for medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and other essential health commodities,
assuring the quality and safety of services and training of health -care workers,
maintaining and safeguarding the quality control and supply chain management, and
where relevant, enhancing national and regional production capacities, both in regular
situations and during health emergencies;
25. Also stresses the need to continue and advance multisectoral collaboration
to build and strengthen capacities, inter alia, for public health surveillance, detection
and reporting systems, especially at points of entry, prevention and control measures
in the community and health-care facilities, clinical management, risk communication
and community engagement;
26. Calls upon Member States to further implement and reinforce an
integrated One Health approach that fosters cooperation between the human health,
animal health and plant health, as well as environmental and other relevant sectors,
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World Health Organization, document WHA63/2010/REC/1, annex 5.
Resolution 70/266, annex.
Resolution 73/3.
Resolution 66/2, annex.
Resolution 73/2.
Resolution 68/300.
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