Sustainable and safe water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and
electricity services in health care facilities
A/RES/80/289
Welcoming the convening of the Fourth International Conference on Financing
for Development from 30 June to 3 July 2025 in Sevilla, Spain, and reaffirming its
outcome document, the Sevilla Commitment, endorsed by the General Assembly in
its resolution 79/323 of 25 August 2025, which sets forth a renewed global framework
for financing for development, building on the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda, to
close with urgency the estimated annual 4 trillion United States dollar financing gap, 1
and catalyse sustainable development investments at scale in developing countries
and continue the reform of the international financial architecture through continued
and strong commitment to multilateralism, international cooperation, and global
solidarity,
Recalling the convening of the United Nations Conference on the Midterm
Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International
Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable Development”, 2018 –2028, in New York
from 22 to 24 March 2023, and looking forward to the 2026 United Nations Water
Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6:
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, to be
co-hosted by Senegal and the United Arab Emirates, and the 2028 United Nations
Conference on the Final Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the
Objectives of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Sustainable
Development”, 2018–2028, to be hosted by Tajikistan,
Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2 the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 3 and the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,
Recalling further its resolution 80/216 of 18 December 2025 on the human
rights to safe drinking water and sanitation,
Recalling the 2023 political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal
health coverage, which reaffirms the right of every human being, without distinction
of any kind, to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health, and recognizes the importance of water, sanitation, hygiene, waste
management and electricity services in health care facilities for health promotion,
disease prevention and the safety of both patients and health workers,
Welcoming the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement 4 on pandemic
prevention, preparedness and response, and recognizing, inter alia, that infection
prevention and control, including hygiene, and access to safe drinking water and
adequate sanitation services, particularly in health care facilities, are essen tial for
preventing the emergence and spread of infectious diseases,
Recalling the Declaration of Astana of the Global Conference on Primary Health
Care, which envisages strengthening primary healthcare as the most inclusive,
effective and efficient approach to enhance people’s physical and mental health, as
well as social well-being, and that primary healthcare is a cornerstone of a sustainable
health system for effective universal health coverage and health -related Sustainable
Development Goals,
Recalling also the 2024 political declaration of the high-level meeting on
antimicrobial resistance 5 which, inter alia, emphasizes the primary role of infection
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1
Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2024 (United Nations publication, 2024),
figure I.1.
2
Resolution 217 A (III).
3
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
4
World Health Assembly resolution 78.1.
5
Resolution 79/2, annex.
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