Global health and foreign policy: strengthening the management of international health crises A/RES/70/183 multisectoral approaches, strengthened health systems, economic growth and sustainable development, in particular in developing countries, and improved health status and adequate nutrition, Underlining the primary responsibility of Member States to promote universal health coverage that comprises universal and equitable access to quality health services and ensures affordable and quality service delivery, especially through primary health care and social protection mechanisms, with the support of the international community and with a view to providing access to health services for all, in particular those in vulnerable or marginalized groups or situations, and underlining also that women and children are particularl y affected by disasters and outbreaks, Underscoring the importance of enhanced international cooperation to support the efforts of Member States to achieve health goals, implement universal access to health services and address health challenges while taking into account different national circumstances and capacities and respecting national policies and priorities, Recognizing the need to integrate a gender and life-course perspective in the international response to health crises, and recognizing also t he key role of women as primary care providers in the community, Underscoring the need for far-reaching partnerships for global health to support the promotion of, inter alia, gender equality and women’s empowerment and ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of all human rights, so as to contribute to the eradication of poverty and to economic and social development, including improved health outcomes, Reaffirming the right to use, to the fullest extent, the provisions contained in the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, the decision of the General Council of the World Trade Organization of 30 August 2003 on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and, when formal acceptance procedures are completed, the amendment to article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement, as proposed by the General Council of the World Trade Organization in its decision of 6 December 2005, which provide flexibilities for the protection of public health, and in particular to promote access to medicines for all, and to encourage the provision of assistance to developing countries in this regard, and calling for broad and timely acceptance of the amendment to article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement, Recognizing the continued importance of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which recognizes that intellectual property protection is important for the development of new medicines and also recognizes the concerns about its effects on prices, 1. Takes note with appreciation of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Director General of the World Health Organization on global health and foreign policy; 10 2. Urges Member States, in accordance with their obligations under relevant provisions of international human rights law, including the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, to promote equal _______________ 10 A/69/405. 5/8