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Rights of the child (2011), para. 084
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- (j) To make all possible efforts to promote universal access to birth registration, ensuring an effective, flexible and accessible system of registration;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa (2010), para. 37
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- 22. Calls upon the international community, including through existing partnerships, to increase investment in and efforts towards the research and development of new, safe and affordable malaria-related medicines, products and technologies, such as vaccines, rapid diagnostic tests, insecticides and delivery modes, to prevent and treat malaria, especially for at-risk children and pregnant women, in order to enhance effectiveness and delay the onset of resistance;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (2013), para. 18
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- 7. Urges States to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers that impede access to birth registration, including late registration, paying due attention to, among others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
- Persons on the move
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Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and AIDS (2011), para. 077
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- (l) Ensuring that women of childbearing age have access to HIV-prevention- related services and that pregnant women have access to antenatal care, information, counselling and other HIV services, and increasing the availability of and access to effective treatment for women living with HIV and infants;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2017), para. 17
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- Recognizing, with interest, the Secretary-General’s revised Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030), undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies that aim for the highest attainable standards of health and well-being, physical, mental and social, at every age, ending maternal and newborn mortality, which is preventable, and noting that this can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Birth registration and the right of everyone to recognition everywhere as a person before the law (2013), para. 21
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- 10. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report, in consultation with States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, non-governmental organizations and other relevant stakeholders, on legal, administrative, economic, physical and any other barriers to access to universal birth registration and possession of documentary proof of birth, as well as on good practices adopted by States in fulfilling their obligation to ensure birth registration, and to submit it to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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Women in development (2014), para. 61
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- 44. Expresses deep concern that maternal health remains one area constrained by some of the largest health inequities in the world, and over the uneven progress in improving child and maternal health, in this context calls upon States to implement their commitments to preventing and reducing child and maternal mortality and morbidity, and welcomes in that regard the Secretary- General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health as well as national, regional and international initiatives contributing to the reduction in the number of maternal deaths and deaths of the newborn and children under age 5;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2030 (2019), para. 77
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- 37. Calls upon the international community to support ways to expand access to affordable, effective and safe products and treatments, such as vector control measures, including indoor residual spraying, long-lasting insecticide- treated nets, including through the free distribution of such nets, adequate diagnostic facilities, intermittent preventive therapies for pregnant women, children under 5 and infants, and artemisinin-based combination therapy for populations at risk of falciparum malaria infection in endemic countries, particularly in Africa, including through additional funds and innovative mechanisms, inter alia, for the financing and scaling up of artemisinin production and procurement, as appropriate, to meet the increased need;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems (2020), para. 21
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- Recognizing that adequate quality antenatal care reduces the risks of maternal mortality and morbidity, premature births and other complications of pregnancy and delivery that can result in poor health outcomes for mothers and neonates, and also that universal access to cost-effective perinatal and neonatal health interventions, including through the application of outreach, family, community and facility -based prevention, promotion and treatment services, significantly reduces a huge proportion of perinatal and neonatal deaths worldwide,
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Infants
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2011), para. 27
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- (a) To redouble their efforts to meet the internationally agreed goal of improving maternal health by making maternal health services and obstetric fistula treatment geographically and financially accessible, including by increasing access to skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric care and appropriate prenatal and post-natal care;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015 (2014), para. 36
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- 13. Urges the international community, inter alia, to support the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to enable it to meet its financial needs and, through country-led initiatives with adequate international support, to intensify access to affordable, safe and effective antimalarial treatments, including artemisinin-based combination therapies, intermittent preventive therapies for pregnant women, children under 5 and infants, adequate diagnostic facilities, long- lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets, including, where appropriate, through the free distribution of such nets and, where appropriate, to insecticides for indoor residual spraying for malaria control, taking into account relevant international rules, including the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 7 standards and guidelines;
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Rights of the child (2006), para. 027
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- (b) Taking all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health and developing sustainable health systems and social services, ensuring access to such systems and services without discrimination, paying particular attention to adequate food and nutrition and assigning priority to activities and programmes aimed at preventing addictions, in particular addiction to alcohol and tobacco, and the abuse of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and inhalants and by, inter alia, securing appropriate prenatal and post-natal care for mothers;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula (2013), para. 13
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- Recognizing the Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, undertaken by a broad coalition of partners, in support of national plans and strategies aimed at significantly reducing the number of maternal, newborn and under-five child deaths and disabilities as a matter of immediate concern by scaling up a priority package of high-impact interventions and integrating efforts in sectors such as health, education, gender equality, water and sanitation, poverty eradication and nutrition,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Poverty
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
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Rights of the child (2005), para. 025
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- (b) Raising awareness at the national, regional and local levels, whenever necessary, of the importance of birth registration;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2009), para. 57
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- 44. Welcomes the contribution to the mobilization of resources for social development by the initiatives taken on a voluntary basis by groups of Member States based on innovative financing mechanisms, including those that aim to provide further drug access at affordable prices to developing countries on a sustainable and predictable basis, such as the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID, as well as other initiatives, such as the International Finance Facility for Immunization and the Advance Market Commitments for Vaccines, and notes the New York Declaration of 20 September 2004, which launched the Action against Hunger and Poverty initiative and called for further attention to raise funds urgently needed to help meet the Millennium Development Goals and to complement and ensure the long-term stability and predictability of foreign aid;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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Intensification of efforts to end obstetric fistula (2019), para. 25
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- 4. Also calls upon States to ensure equitable coverage and timely access, by means of national plans, policies and programmes, to health-care services, in particular emergency obstetric and newborn care, skilled birth attendance, obstetric fistula treatment and family planning, that are financially affordable, accessible and culturally sensitive, especially in rural and the most-remote areas;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 038
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- 11. Calls upon all States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations, to combat all forms of malnutrition and to support the national plans and programmes of countries to improve nutrition in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, up to the age of 2 years, and to reaffirm the rights of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger so as to be able to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 40
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- Emphasizing the importance of seeking synergies and collaboration with other relevant actors within and outside the United Nations system, such as the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Bank, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNITAID, Gavi, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the Global Financing Facility in support of Every Woman, Every Child, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, the International Health Partnership for UHC2030, regional organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to address the health needs of those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations,
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Access to medicines and vaccines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical andmental health (2019), para. 46
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- (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;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2020), para. 093
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- 59. Also encourages Member States, in cooperation with relevant United Nations humanitarian organizations, to ensure that women and girls have access to basic health-care services, including reliable and safe access to sexual and reproductive health-care services and mental health and psychosocial support, from the onset of emergencies, in this regard recognizes that such assistance protects women, adolescent girls and infants from preventable mortality and morbidity that occur in humanitarian emergencies, and calls upon Member States, the United Nations and other relevant actors to give such programmes due consideration;
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Infants
- Women
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Access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (2004), para. 42
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- 13. Calls upon States to ensure that those at risk of contracting malaria, in particular pregnant women and children under five years of age, benefit from the most suitable combination of personal and community protective measures, such as insecticide treated bed nets and other interventions that are accessible and affordable, in order to prevent infection and suffering;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Rights of the child (2004), para. 056
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- (d) To promote an educational setting that eliminates all barriers that impede the schooling of pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers;
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- Education
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Infants
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Intensifying global efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilations (2013), para. 09
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- Reaffirming that female genital mutilations are a harmful practice that constitutes a serious threat to the health of women and girls, including their psychological, sexual and reproductive health, which can increase their vulnerability to HIV and may have adverse obstetric and prenatal outcomes as well as fatal consequences for the mother and the newborn, and that the abandonment of this harmful practice can be achieved as a result of a comprehensive movement that involves all public and private stakeholders in society, including girls and boys, women and men,
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- Harmful Practices
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Infants
- Men
- Women
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Preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age as a human rights concern (2016), para. 06
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- Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 and recognizing that reducing preventable mortality and morbidity of children under 5 years of age will require efforts across the 2030 Agenda, including target 3.2, on ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age,
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Draft outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 087
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- 63. We recognize the regional efforts being made to advance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. In this regard, we welcome the convening of the fifteenth ordinary session of the Summit of the African Union in Kampala from 19 to 27 July 2010, with the theme “Maternal, infant and child health and development in Africa”, the launch of the African Union Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa; the slogan “Africa cares: no woman should die while giving life”; the Special Ministerial Meeting to Review the Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: run-up to 2015, held in Jakarta on 3 and 4 August 2010; the report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on progress in Latin America and the Caribbean towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals; and similar reports produced by other regional commissions, all of which will contribute positively to the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, as well as to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Consolidating gains and accelerating efforts to control and eliminate malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa, by 2015 and beyond (2015), para. 59
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- 32. Calls upon Member States and the international community, especially malaria-endemic countries, in accordance with existing guidelines and recommendations of the World Health Organization and the requirements of the Stockholm Convention related to the use of DDT, to become fully knowledgeable about the technical policies and strategies of the World Health Organization and the provisions of the Stockholm Convention, including for indoor residual spraying, long-lasting insecticide-treated nets and case management, intermittent preventive therapies for pregnant women, children under 5 and infants, monitoring of in vivo resistance studies to artemisinin-based combination therapies and monitoring and managing insecticide resistance and outdoor malaria transmission, as well as to increase capacity for the registration and uptake of new vector control tools, the safe, effective and judicious use of indoor residual spraying and other forms of vector control, including quality control measures, in accordance with international rules, standards and guidelines;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
- Women
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Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (2010), para. 173
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- (b) Addressing reproductive, maternal and child health, including newborn health, in a comprehensive manner, inter alia, through the provision of family planning, prenatal care, skilled attendance at birth, emergency obstetric and newborn care and methods for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and infections, such as HIV, within strengthened health systems that provide accessible and affordable integrated health-care services and include community-based preventive and clinical care;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance (2016), para. 28
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- 13. Call upon the World Health Organization, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organization for Animal Health, to finalize a global development and stewardship framework, as requested by the World Health Assembly in its resolution 68.7, to support the development, control, distribution and appropriate use of new antimicrobial medicines, diagnostic tools, vaccines and other interventions, while pre serving existing antimicrobial medicines, and to promote affordable access to existing and new antimicrobial medicines and diagnostic tools, taking into account the needs of all countries and in line with the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance;
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- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Infants
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2018), para. 48
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- 38. Also notes that the lack of civil registration and related documentation makes persons vulnerable to statelessness and associated protection risks, recognizes that birth registration provides an official record of a child ’s legal identity and is crucial to preventing and reducing statelessness, and welcomes efforts by States to ensure the birth registration of children;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 032
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- 8. Urges all States to ensure birth registration free of cost to all children immediately after birth through universal, accessible, simple, expeditious and effective registration procedures, in accordance with article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 24 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to continuously raise awareness of the importance of birth registration at the national, regional and local levels, to ensure free or low-fee late birth registration, to identify and remove physical, administrative, procedural and any other barriers, paying due attention to, among others, those barriers relating to poverty, disability, gender, nationality, displacement, statelessness, illiteracy and detention contexts, and to persons in vulnerable situations that impede access to birth registration, including late birth registration, and to ensure that children who have not been registered enjoy their human rights;
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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