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technologies, including through the full use of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual
Property Rights flexibilities;
5.
Reiterates the call upon States to continue to collaborate, as appropriate, on
models and approaches that support the delinkage of the cost of new research and
development from the prices of medicines, vaccines and diagnostics for diseases that
predominantly affect developing countries, including emerging and neglected tropical
diseases, so as to ensure their sustained accessibility, affordability and availability and to
ensure access to treatment for all those in need;
6.
Calls upon the international community to continue to assist developing
countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through access to
medicines that are affordable, safe, efficacious and of quality, and through financial and
technical support and training of personnel, while recognizing that the primary
responsibility for promoting and protecting all human rights rests with States;
7.
Recognizes the innovative funding mechanisms that contribute to the
availability of vaccines and medicines in developing countries, such as the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Gavi Alliance and UNITAID, and calls upon all
States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in particular the World Health
Organization, and relevant intergovernmental organizations, within their respective
mandates, and encourages relevant stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies,
while safeguarding public health from undue influence by any form of real, perceived or
potential conflict of interest, to further collaborate to enable equitable access to quality, safe
and efficacious medicines that are affordable to all, including those living in poverty,
children and other persons in vulnerable situations;
8.
Urges all States, United Nations agencies and programmes and relevant
intergovernmental organizations, especially the World Health Organization, within their
respective mandates, and encourages non-governmental organizations and relevant
stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies, to promote innovative research and
development to address health needs in developing countries, including access to quality,
safe, efficacious and affordable medicines, and in particular with regard to diseases
disproportionately affecting developing countries, and the challenges arising from the
growing burden of non-communicable diseases, taking into account the Global Strategy and
Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property of the World Health
Organization;
9.
Invites the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, while considering the many
ways towards the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health, to continue to focus on the human rights
dimension of access to medicines when discharging his or her duties, in accordance with
the mandate;
10.
Invites Member States and all stakeholders, including relevant United
Nations bodies, agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, special procedure mandate
holders, national human rights institutions, civil society and the private sector, to promote
policy coherence in the areas of human rights, intellectual property and international trade
and investment when considering access to medicines;
11.
Decides to convene, at its thirty-fourth session, a panel discussion to
exchange views on good practices and key challenges relevant to access to medicines as
one of the fundamental elements of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health, taking into account all relevant reports,
and that the discussion shall be fully accessible to persons with disabilities,
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