A/RES/70/183
Global health and foreign policy: strengthening the management of international health crises
access to health services, and calls for the development and attainment by Member
States of resilient and sustainable health systems capable of responding effectively
to outbreaks and emergencies and of implementing an effective response to the
broader dimensions of outbreaks and emergencies that include food security and
access to basic health services;
3.
Calls upon partnerships for global health to support Member States i n
carrying out their primary responsibilities to accelerate the transition towards
universal health coverage, which implies that all people have equal access, without
discrimination of any kind, to nationally determined sets of quality promotive,
preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative basic health services needed and
essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines, especially through the
promotion of primary health care, while ensuring that the use of these services does
not expose the users to financial hardship, with a specific emphasis on the poor,
vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population;
4.
Urges Member States, in cooperation, as appropriate, with relevant
international organizations, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement and other relevant non-State actors, including Médecins sans frontières,
to develop effective preventive measures to enhance and promote the safety and
protection of medical and health personnel, as well as respect for their respe ctive
professional codes of ethics and scope of practice;
5.
Calls upon Member States to strengthen support for the health workforce
to enable local and regional surge capacity, as the most important basis for
emergency and outbreak response, which includes ensuring the availability of
adequate care and treatment facilities, essential supplies and protective equipment
and strengthening national and regional capacities for disease detection and
surveillance, including the provision of support for developing countries to build
capacity in line with the principles of the World Health Organization Global Code of
Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel; 11
6.
Encourages Member States to secure sustainable financing for health
research and development on emerging diseases and neglected tropical diseases,
including Ebola virus disease, and to enhance access to health products and medical
devices to address the health needs of developing countries;
7.
Reiterates the call upon Member 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 Ebola virus disease and other 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; 12
8.
Commends the regional efforts to implement action plans to ensure the
containment of diseases, and welcomes the current process for the establishment of
an African centre for disease control and prevention, as well as the similar initiatives
around the world in line with the International Health Regulations (2005); 6
9.
Invites the World Health Organization to provide technical support to
Member States, upon request, in order to strengthen their capacity to deal with public
health emergencies and implement the International Health Regulations (2005), with
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World Health Organization, document WHA63/2010/REC/1, annex 5.
See World Health Organization, document EBSS/3/2015/REC/1.
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