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(b) Ensuring that their actions, as members of international organizations,
take due account of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health and that the application of international
agreements is supportive of public health policies that promote broad access to safe,
effective and affordable preventive, curative or palliative pharmaceutical products
or medical technologies;
11. Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges that further contributions be made to
sustain the Fund, and calls upon all States to encourage the private sector to
contribute to the Fund as a matter of urgency;
12. Calls upon the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS to
mobilize further resources to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic and upon all
Governments to take measures to ensure that the necessary resources are made
available to the Programme, in line with the Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS;
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;
14. Also calls upon States to provide the necessary support for the World
Health Organization Roll Back Malaria and Stop Tuberculosis Partnerships in their
ongoing measures to combat malaria and tuberculosis;
15. Calls upon the international community, in particular the developed
countries, to continue to assist developing countries in the fight against pandemics
such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, through financial and technical
support as well as through the training of personnel;
16. Invites the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to give
attention to the issue of access to medication in the context of pandemics such as
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and invites States to include appropriate
information thereon in the reports they submit to the Committee.
77th plenary meeting
22 December 2003
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