A/RES/70/183
Global health and foreign policy: strengthening the management of international health crises
18. Calls upon Member States, if in a position to do so, to support the
initiative of the World Bank to develop a pande mic emergency financing facility
towards ensuring that the world has the financial resources to quickly deploy trained
health workers, equipment, medicines and whatever else is required to respond to
health emergencies, along with the contingency fund of t he World Health
Organization;
19. Decides to hold a high-level meeting in 2016 on antimicrobial resistance,
and requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the Director General of the
World Health Organization, and in consultation with Member St ates, as appropriate,
to determine options and modalities for the conduct of such a meeting, including
potential deliverables;
20. Encourages Member States to participate actively in the dissemination,
verification and validation of surveillance data and information concerning public
health emergencies and, in close collaboration with the World Health Organization,
to exchange information and experience in a timely and open manner on epidemics
and the prevention and control of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases that
pose a risk to global public health;
21. Calls upon the international community and Member States to give due
consideration to the importance of the management of international health crises,
bearing in mind the social, economic, security and environmental implications of the
policy choices and actions of Member States at all levels in their implementation of
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 15 building upon the achievements of
the Millennium Development Goals and seeking to address their unfinished business;
22. Requests the Secretary-General, as appropriate, in consultation with
Member States, relevant international organizations and other relevant actors, to
explore steps to meet the global shortfall of trained health workers, including the
possibility of establishing a high-level commission on future health employment and
economic growth;
23. Also requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with Member
States, the Director General of the World Health Organization and the United
Nations system, to submit a report on the lessons learned in the public health
emergency response to and management of previous international crises with health
consequences, and to transmit in 2016 and 2017 reports provided by the World
Health Organization on the state of health security, taking into account deliberation
by the World Health Assembly on the matter, and acknowledging that the ongoing
necessity of such reports beyond 2017 can be re-evaluated.
80th plenary meeting
17 December 2015
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