Sustainable, safe and universal water, sanitation, hygiene, waste
and electricity services in health-care facilities
A/RES/78/130
improve water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity servic es in health-care
facilities;
4.
Recognizes that health financing requires global solidarity and collective
effort, and urges Member States to strengthen international cooperation to support
efforts to build and strengthen capacity in developing countries, including through
enhanced official development assistance and financial and technical support and
support to research, development and innovation programmes;
5.
Encourages all relevant entities of the United Nations system to promote
the optimum use of resources and to support developing countries, at their request, in
the acceleration of efforts to improve water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity
in health-care facilities;
6.
Requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the Director
General of the World Health Organization and the Executive Director of the United
Nations Children’s Fund, as well as core partners such as the World Bank and other
relevant organizations, to strengthen and support, as appropriate, within their
mandates, the existing global initiatives co-led by the World Health Organization and
the United Nations Children’s Fund, to provide assistance to Member States, upon
their request, towards the achievement of universal, safe, sustainable water,
sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in heal th-care facilities as a core
measure to achieve universal health coverage, primary health care and the related
targets of the Sustainable Development Goals; 11
7.
Also requests the Secretary-General to provide, in consultation with the
World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and other relevant
international organizations, within existing resources, a progress report on the
implementation of the present resolution in 2025 during the seventy -ninth session of
the General Assembly, which will serve to inform States and the United Nations
development system, and in this context invites all States to contribute to the report
of the Secretary-General, including by providing data through the World Health
Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund Joint Monitoring Programme on
water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities.
48th plenary meeting
18 December 2023
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See resolution 70/1.
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