A/RES/58/3
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 November 2003
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 60
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 October 2003
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/58/L.5 and Add.1)]
58/3. Enhancing capacity-building in global public health
The General Assembly,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 adopted by heads of
State and Government at the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, and the
development goals contained therein, in particular the health-related development
goals, and its resolutions 55/162 of 14 December 2000, 56/95 of 14 December 2001
and 57/144 of 16 December 2002,
Bearing in mind World Health Assembly resolutions 48.13 of 12 May 1995,
54.14 of 21 May 2001 and 56.28 and 56.29 of 28 May 2003,
Recognizing that Member States have to strengthen their efforts to halt and
begin to reverse, by 2015, the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and
other major diseases,
Reaffirming its Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, 2
Recognizing that the globalization of trade and increased international travel
have increased the risk of a rapid worldwide spread of infectious diseases, posing
new challenges to public health,
Noting with concern the deleterious impact on humankind of HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria and other major infectious diseases and epidemics, and the
heavy disease burden borne by poor people, especially in developing countries,
Welcoming the current success of the affected countries in combating the
severe acute respiratory syndrome, the first severe infectious disease to emerge in
the twenty-first century, the political commitment and strong leadership shown in
the affected countries and the role of the World Health Organization in controlling
the epidemic, while mindful of the fact that the fight against the severe acute
respiratory syndrome and other epidemics is far from over,
Convinced that strengthening public health is critical to the development of all
Member States, and that economic and social development are enhanced through
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See resolution 55/2.
Resolution S-26/2, annex.