Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems A/RES/74/20 health needs which are reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 17 including all children, youth, persons with disabilities, people living with HIV/AIDS, older persons, indigenous peoples, refugees and internally displaced persons and migrants; 6. Also calls upon Member States to promote social protection mechanisms to ensure access to quality-assured and affordable essential health services, including medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, medical products and health technologies; 7. Further calls upon Member States to take measures to share and implement the vision and commitments of the Declaration of Astana, while reiterating the commitment of the Declaration of Alma-Ata, including to promote the empowerment of individuals and communities, in the context of primary health care; 8. Calls upon Member States to ensure the right of every human being, without distinction of any kind, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, while recalling that everyone has the right, individually or in association with others, to promote and strive for the protection and the realization of particularly this right, and encouraging leaders in all sectors of society and in their respective communities to express public support for it; 9. Encourages Member States to engage all relevant stakeholders, including civil society, the private sector and academia, as appropriate, through the establishment of participatory and transparent multi-stakeholder platforms and partnerships, to provide input to the development, implementation and evaluation of health- and social-related policies and reviewing progress for the achievement of national objectives for universal health coverage, while giving due r egard to addressing and managing conflicts of interest and undue influence; 10. Also encourages Member States to mainstream a gender perspective on a systems-wide basis when designing, implementing and monitoring health policies, taking into account the specific needs of all women and girls, with a view to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women in health policies and health systems delivery; 11. Calls upon Member States to promote more coherent and inclusive approaches to safeguard universal health coverage in emergencies, including through international cooperation, ensuring the continuum and provision of essential health services and public health functions, in line with humanitarian principles; 12. Also calls upon Member States to ensure that persons affected by sexual violence in natural disasters, humanitarian emergencies and armed conflicts have safe access to non-discriminatory health-care services; 13. Urges all Member States, as appropriate to local and national cont exts and with the objective of the success of primary health care and the achievement of universal health coverage, to implement community health worker programmes in order to enable community health workers to deliver safe and high -quality care and to optimize community health worker programmes at the national level as part of national health workforce and broader health sector, employment and economic development strategies, in line with national priorities, resources and specificities; 14. Urges Member States to scale up efforts to promote the recruitment and retention of competent, skilled and motivated health workers, including community health workers and mental health professionals, and encourage incentives to secure the equitable distribution of qualified health workers especially in rural, hard-to-reach and underserved areas and in fields with high demands for services, including by __________________ 17 8/12 Resolution 70/1. 19-21394