Global health and foreign policy: strengthening health system resilience through affordable health care for all A/RES/75/130 Recognizing that people’s engagement, particularly of women and girls, families and communities, and the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders is one of the core components of health system governance, to fully empower all people in improving and protecting their own health, giving due regard to addressing and manag ing conflicts of interest and undue influence, contributing to the achievement of universal health coverage for all, with a focus on health outcomes, Emphasizing that illicit financial flows, in particular those caused by tax evasion, corruption and transnational organized crime, reduce the availability of vital resources for responding to and recovering from the COVID -19 pandemic and financing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, Recalling the World Health Organization Global Strategy and Plan of Actio n on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, 14 designed to promote medicinal innovation, build capacity and improve access to medicines, and encouraging further discussions on access to medicines, 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), which provides flexibilities for the protection of public health and promotes access to medicines for all, in particular for developing countries, and 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. Urges Member States to strengthen national health systems through ensuring affordable health care for all, with a focus on primary health care, as well as the availability, accessibility and affordability of quality health services a nd quality, safe, effective, affordable and essential medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and health technologies, with a view to implementing the most effective, high -impact, qualityassured, people-centred, with full respect for human rights, gender- and disabilityresponsive and evidence-based interventions to meet the health needs of all throughout the life course; 2. Calls upon Member States to strengthen the resilience of their health systems as an integral part of their preparedness for health emergenc ies, so as to be able to respond to such emergencies while maintaining access to essential health services or to quickly reinstate them after disruption; 3. Encourages Member States to implement high-impact policies to protect people’s health and comprehensively address the social, economic and environmental determinants of health by working across all sectors through a whole -of-government and health-in-all-policies approach, promoting safe access to health-care services and taking into account such factors as socioeconomic status, housing, occupational condition, access to safe water and sanitation, education, digital connectivity and food security to obtain better health outcomes; 4. Also encourages Member States to provide access to essential socioeconomic benefits that can preserve the health and well-being of their population, such as providing social protection in case of public health emergencies; 5. Further encourages Member States to pursue efficient health financing policies, including through close collaboration among relevant authorities, including finance and health authorities, to respond to unmet needs and to eliminate financial barriers to access to quality, safe, effective, affordable and essential health services, medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and health technologies, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures leading to financial hardship and ensure financial risk protection for all __________________ 14 20-17079 See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1. 5/9