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access to affordable, safe, effective and quality medicines, vaccines and diagnostics and
other health products, including through the full use of TRIPS Agreement provisions and
flexibilities;
5.
Reiterates the call upon States to continue to collaborate, as appropriate, on
models and approaches that support the delinkage of the cost of new research and
development from the prices of medicines, vaccines and diagnostics for diseases that
predominantly affect developing countries, including emerging and neglected tropical
diseases, so as to ensure their sustained accessibility, affordability and availability and to
ensure access to treatment for all those in need;
6.
Calls upon the international community to continue to assist developing
countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through access to
medicines, in particular essential medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices and
other health products that are affordable, safe, effective and of quality, and through
financial and technical support, training of personnel and other capacity-building measures,
while recognizing that the primary responsibility for respecting, protecting and fulfilling all
human rights rests with States, while recognizing also the fundamental importance of the
transfer of environmentally sound technologies on favourable terms, including on
concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed;
7.
Recognizes the innovative funding mechanisms that contribute to the
availability of vaccines and medicines in developing countries, such as the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Gavi Alliance and UNITAID, and calls upon all
States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in particular the World Health
Organization, and relevant intergovernmental organizations, within their respective
mandates, and encourages relevant stakeholders, including companies involved in the
research and development, manufacture, importing, distribution and supply of
pharmaceuticals, while safeguarding public health from undue influence by any form of
real, perceived or potential conflict of interest, to further collaborate to enable equitable
access to quality, safe and effective medicines and vaccines that are affordable to all,
including those living in poverty, children and other persons in vulnerable situations;
8.
Encourages engagement among Governments, international organizations,
non-governmental organizations, academic and research institutions, philanthropic
foundations and the private sector and greater policy coherence and coordinated actions
through whole-of-government and Health in All Policies approaches to find solutions to
health challenges, such as the need for public health-driven research and development,
improved existing and alternative frameworks to adequately reward innovation, pricing and
affordability of health products, and leveraging innovative technologies, including digital
technologies, and solutions for health;
9.
Encourages States, in cooperation with other stakeholders, to redouble efforts
to achieve a continuous supply of quality, safe, effective and affordable health products
through research and development that meets public health needs, for the efficient
application and management of intellectual property standards, to carry out evidence-based
selection of health products and to seek fair and affordable pricing, to adopt good
procurement and supply chain management and to promote appropriate prescribing,
dispensing and rational use of health products;
10.
Recognizes the importance of adequately training the health workforce,
including community health workers, and of improving health literacy in order to achieve
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and strengthen universal
health coverage;
11.
Urges all States, United Nations agencies and programmes and relevant
intergovernmental organizations, especially the World Health Organization, within their
respective mandates, and encourages non-governmental organizations and relevant
stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies, to promote innovative research and
development to address health needs in developing countries, including access to safe,
effective, quality and affordable medicines and vaccines, in particular with regard to
diseases disproportionately affecting developing countries, and the challenges arising from
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