Global health and foreign policy: strengthening health system
resilience through affordable health care for all
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throughout the life course, especially for the poor and those who are vulnerable or in
vulnerable situations, through better allocation and use of resources, with adequate
financing for primary health care, in accordance with national contexts and priorities;
6.
Urges Member States to strengthen international cooperation to support
efforts to build and strengthen capacity in developing countries, including through
enhanced official development assistance;
7.
Also urges Member States to pursue sustainable and innovative health
financing policies through, inter alia, effective domestic resource mobilization as well
as better allocation and use of resources with adequate financing for primary health
care, innovative financing and pandemic preparedness through close collaboration
among relevant authorities, public-private partnerships, civil society, academia and
philanthropy;
8.
Calls upon Member States to address the challenges of preventing and
combating illicit financial flows and strengthening international cooperation and good
practices on assets return and recovery, and recognizes that fighting corruption at all
levels and in all its forms is a priority and that corruption is a serious barrier to
effective resource mobilization and allocation and diverts resources away from
activities that are vital for poverty eradication and sustainable development, which
may undermine efforts to achieve universal health coverage;
9.
Urges Member States to further strengthen and improve the quality,
capacity, accessibility and affordability of health systems for all through enhancing
evidence-based public health measures, health workforce and access to quality
essential health-care services and safe, effective, quality and affordable essential
medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and other health technologies for all, including
procurement, distribution and availability, infrastructure, information systems,
preparedness and response plans and service delivery;
10. Encourages Member States to promote coherent and coordinated national
strategies for safe, effective, quality, affordable essential health services, in mitigating
the impacts from health emergencies and post-emergency recovery processes;
11. Calls upon Member States, who have the primary responsibility to counter
discrimination and hate speech, and all relevant actors, including political and
religious leaders, to promote inclusion and unity in response to the COVID-19
pandemic and to prevent, speak out and take strong action against racism, xenophobia,
hate speech, violence, discrimination, including on the basis of age, and stigmatization;
12. Calls upon States to ensure that all human rights are respected, protected
and fulfilled while combating the pandemic and that their responses to the COVID -19
pandemic are in full compliance with their human rights obligations and
commitments;
13. Also calls upon States to take all measures necessary to ensure the right of
women and girls to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health,
including sexual and reproductive health, and reproductive rights, in accordance with
the Programme of Action of the International Confer ence on Population and
Development, 15 the Beijing Platform for Action 16 and the outcome documents of their
review conferences, and to develop sustainable health systems and social services,
with a view to ensuring universal access to such systems and servi ces without
discrimination;
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Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4 –15 September 1995 (United
Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
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