Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems A/RES/74/20 related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, including through technical support, capacity-building and strengthening advocacy, building on existing global networks such as the International Health Partnership for UHC2030, Taking note of the launch of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Wellbeing for All, in New York on 24 September 2019, Taking note also of the Inter-Parliamentary Union resolution of 17 October 2019, entitled “Achieving universal health coverage by 2030: the role of parliaments in ensuring the right to health”, Emphasizing that the United Nations system has an important responsibility and role to assist Member States, upon their request, in the follow -up to and full implementation of agreements and commitments reached at the major United Na tions conferences and summits, especially those focusing on health-related areas, and emphasizing also the primary role of the World Health Organization as the United Nations specialized agency for health, and other relevant international organizations, in providing technical support to countries on how to best engage populations, civil society and communities in national health policy, 1. Calls upon Member States to strengthen health systems, notably in terms of primary health care, in order to provide universal access to a wide range of healthcare services that are safe, quality, accessible, available and affordable, timely, clinically and financially integrated, people-centred, gender-sensitive and community-based, which will help to empower those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations in addressing their physical and mental health needs, enhance health equity and equality, end discrimination and stigma, eliminate gaps in coverage and create a more inclusive society; 2. Welcomes the high-level meeting on universal health coverage, held in New York on 23 September 2019, and reaffirms its political declaration, entitled “Universal health coverage: moving together to build a healthier world ”; 16 3. Calls upon Member States to accelerate efforts towards the achievement of universal health coverage by 2030 to ensure healthy lives and promote well -being for all throughout the life course, and in this regard re -emphasizes the resolve: (a) To progressively cover 1 billion additional people by 2023 with quality essential health services and quality, safe, effective, affordable and essential medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and health technologies, with a view to covering all people by 2030; (b) To stop the rise and reverse the trend of catastrophic out -of-pocket health expenditure by providing measures to ensure financial risk protection and eliminate impoverishment due to health-related expenses by 2030, with special emphasis on the poor as well as those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations; 4. Recognizes that people’s engagement, particularly of women and girls, families and communities, and the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders is one of the core components of health system governance, to fully empower all people in improving and protecting their own health, giving due regard to addressing and managing conflicts of interest and undue influence, contributing to the achievement of universal health coverage for all, with a focus on health outcomes; 5. Calls upon Member States to ensure that no one is left behind, with an endeavour to reach the furthest behind first, founded on the dignity of the human person and reflecting the principles of equality and non-discrimination, as well as to empower those who are in vulnerable situations and address their physical and mental __________________ 16 19-21394 Resolution 74/2. 7/12