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the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, while taking into account the Global
Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property of the
World Health Organization;
12.
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 and vaccines when discharging his or her duties, in
accordance with the mandate;
13.
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, public health, intellectual property and
international trade and investment when considering access to medicines and vaccines;
14.
Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
(a)
To convene, before the forty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council, a
full-day intersessional seminar on good practices, key challenges and new developments
relevant to access to medicines and vaccines as one of the fundamental elements of the right
of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health, in coordination with the World Health Organization;
(b)
To invite States, relevant United Nations bodies, agencies, funds and
programmes, treaty bodies, special procedure mandate holders, national human rights
institutions, civil society, the private sector and other relevant stakeholders, with a view to
ensuring their participation in the seminar;
(c)
To submit to the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth session a report, in
the form of a summary, on the seminar.
39th meeting
11 July 2019
[Adopted without a vote.]
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