United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/27 Distr.: General 14 January 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 55 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 November 2004 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.30 and Add.1)] 59/27. Enhancing capacity-building in global public health The General Assembly, Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration,1 adopted by Heads of State and Government at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, and the development goals contained therein, in particular the health-related development goals, and its resolutions 55/162 of 14 December 2000, 56/95 of 14 December 2001, 57/144 of 16 December 2002 and 58/3 of 27 October 2003, Recalling also World Health Assembly resolutions 48.13 of 12 May 1995, 54.14 of 21 May 2001 and 56.28 and 56.29 of 28 May 2003, Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration,2 Recognizing that Member States have to strengthen their efforts to halt and begin to reverse, by 2015, the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases, Reaffirming its Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS,3 Recognizing that the globalization of trade and increased international travel have increased the risk of a rapid worldwide spread of infectious diseases, posing new challenges to public health, Noting with concern the deleterious impact on humankind of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other major infectious diseases and epidemics, and the heavy disease burden borne by poor people, especially in developing countries, including the least developed countries, as well as countries with economies in transition, and in this regard noting with appreciation the work of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, its co-sponsoring agencies and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the holding of the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, from 11 to 16 July 2004, with the theme of “Access for all” in respect of people living with HIV/AIDS, _______________ 1 See resolution 55/2. A/59/282 and Corr.1. 3 Resolution S-26/2, annex. 2 04-47782

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