A/RES/75/315
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 August 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 131
Global health and foreign policy
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 August 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/75/L.120)]
75/315.
Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level
meeting on universal health coverage
The General Assembly,
Recalling the outcome of the first high-level meeting on universal health
coverage on 23 September 2019, and reaffirming its political declaration, entitled
“Universal health coverage: moving together to build a healthier world”, 1 in which it
reiterated, inter alia, the importance of scaling up the global effort to leave no one
behind and to build a healthier world for all, as well as accelerating efforts towards
the achievement of universal health coverage by 2030 to ensure healthy lives and
promote well-being for all throughout the life course,
Recalling also that it was decided in the political declaration to convene a high level meeting on universal health coverage in 2023 in New York, aimed to undertake
a comprehensive review on the implementation of the 2019 political declaration to
identify gaps and solutions to accelerate progress towards the achievement of
universal health coverage by 2030,
Recognizing that through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development 2 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 essential medicines and
vaccines for all,
Recognizing also that, through the adoption of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda
of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, 3 Heads of State
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Adopted by the General Assembly in resolution 74/2 on 10 October 2019.
Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
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