A/RES/80/289 Sustainable and safe water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in health care facilities 4. Recognizes that health financing requires global solidarity and collective effort, and urges Member States to strengthen international cooperation to support efforts to build and strengthen capacity in developing countries, including through enhanced official development assistance and financial and technical support and support to research, development and innovation programmes; 5. Encourages all relevant entities of the United Nations system to promote the optimum use of resources and to support developing countries, at their request, in the acceleration of efforts to improve water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management and electricity in health care facilities; 6. Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director General of the World Health Organization and the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, as well as core partners such as the World Bank and other relevant organizations, to strengthen and support, as appropriate, within their mandates, the existing global initiatives co-led by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to provide assistance to Member States, upon their request, towards the achievement of universal, safe, sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in health care facilities as a core measure to achieve universal health coverage, primary healthcare and the related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals; 7. Also requests the Secretary-General to provide, in consultation with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other relevant international organizations, within available resources, a progress report on the implementation of the present resolution during the eighty-second session of the General Assembly, which will serve to inform States and the United Nations development system, and in this context invites all States to contribute to the report of the Secretary-General, including by providing data through the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund. 98th plenary meeting 6 July 2026 6/6 26-09985

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