Global health and foreign policy: strengthening health system
resilience through affordable health care for all
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taking into account the relevant guidance recommended by the World Health
Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the
World Organization for Animal Health, and exchanging reliable information and
scientific knowledge in a timely manner;
27. Calls upon Member States, other partners and donors to urgently support
funding and close the funding gap for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator and
its mechanisms, such as the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility,
and support equitable distribution of diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines, and
further explore innovative financing mechanisms aimed at ensuring continuity and
strengthening of essential health services;
28. Encourages Member States to work with the World Health Organization
and other key stakeholders to strengthen their capacity to deal with public health
emergencies, with a view to ensuring full and effective implementation of and
compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005), in order to build
resilient health systems and strengthen surveillance and preparedness measures,
particularly with regard to infectious diseases and other health threats;
29. Calls upon Member States to continue to support the international efforts
under the coordination of the Secretary-General to work with all relevant actors in
order to mobilize a coordinated global response to the COVID -19 pandemic and its
adverse social, economic and financial impact on all societies;
30. Invites relevant United Nations entities, especially the World Health
Organization, to continue to provide quality and effectively disseminated normative
guidance and technical support to Member States, upon their request, in order to build
capacity, strengthen health systems and promote financial sustainability, training,
recruitment, development and retention of human resources for health and technology
transfer on mutually agreed terms, to deal with health emergencies, with a particular
focus on developing countries;
31. Invites the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations and the World Organization for Animal Health to
further strengthen their collaboration before and during pandemics through the
Tripartite Secretariat, to combat health risks in the human health, animal health and
plant health, as well as environmental and other relevant sectors in the context of the
One Health approach, together with other relevant parts of the United Nations system
and relevant stakeholders in this regard;
32. Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director
General of the World Health Organization as well as other relevant international
organizations, to report to the General Assembly at its seventy -sixth session, under
the item entitled “Global health and foreign policy”, on progress rel ated to
strengthening health system resilience through affordable health care for all as well
as improving international coordination and cooperation to address the health needs
of all States during health emergencies, as requested in the political declara tion of the
high-level meeting on universal health coverage.
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