A/HRC/RES/32/15 dignity that includes equitable and universal access to health care and social protection, and where physical, mental and social well-being are assured, Welcoming the Sustainable Development Goals, including, inter alia, Goal 3 on ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, and its specific and interlinked targets, and other health-related Goals and targets, Taking note with appreciation of the report of the Chairman-Rapporteur of the 2015 Social Forum,1 held in Geneva from 18 to 20 February 2015, Noting with appreciation the Human Rights Council panel convened to discuss the progress in and challenges of addressing human rights issues in the context of efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030, on 11 March 2016, Noting with appreciation also the Secretary-General’s decision to establish a Highlevel Panel on Access to Medicines, with the mandate to make proposals on how to address policy incoherence in public health, trade, the justifiable rights of inventors, and human rights, and recognizing the participation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the expert advisory group supporting the Panel, Noting with concern that, for millions of people throughout the world, the full and equal enjoyment of the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health remains a distant goal, Concerned about the interrelatedness between poverty and the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in particular the fact that ill health can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty, Recognizing that universal health coverage implies that all people have access without discrimination to nationally determined sets of the needed promotive, preventive, curative, palliative and rehabilitative essential health services, and essential, safe, affordable, efficacious and quality medicines and vaccines, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose users to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalized segments of the population, Recognizing also the need for States, in cooperation with international organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, including pharmaceutical companies, to create favourable conditions at the national, regional and international levels to ensure the full and effective enjoyment of the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Recalling that the Doha Ministerial Declaration on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health confirms that the Agreement does not and should not prevent members of the World Trade Organization from taking measures to protect public health, and that the Declaration, accordingly, while reiterating the commitment to the Agreement, affirms that it can and should be interpreted and implemented in a manner supportive of the rights of members of the Organization to protect public health and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all, and further recognizes, in this connection, the right of members of the Organization to use, to the full, the provisions of the above-mentioned Agreement, which provide flexibility for this purpose, Regretting the high number of people still without access to affordable, safe, efficacious and quality medicines, and underscoring that improving such access could save 1 2 A/HRC/29/44.