A/HRC/RES/23/14
6.
Calls upon the international community to continue to assist developing
countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through access to
medicines that are affordable, safe, efficacious and of quality, and through financial and
technical support and training of personnel, while recognizing that the primary
responsibility for promoting and protecting all human rights rests with States;
7.
Invites relevant United Nations programmes and agencies, in particular the
World Health Organization, as well as other relevant international organizations, within
their mandates, to consider the findings of the study of the Special Rapporteur;
8.
Recognizes the innovative funding mechanisms that contribute to the
availability of vaccines and medicines in developing countries, such as the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the GAVI Alliance and the International Drug
Purchase Facility, UNITAID, and calls upon all States, United Nations programmes and
agencies, in particular the World Health Organization, and relevant intergovernmental
organizations, within their respective mandates, and encourages relevant stakeholders,
including pharmaceutical companies, while safeguarding public health from undue
influence by any form of real, perceived or potential conflict of interest, to further
collaborate to enable equitable access to quality, safe and efficacious medicines that are
affordable to all, including those living in poverty, children and other persons in vulnerable
situations;
9.
Urges all States, United Nations agencies and programmes and relevant
intergovernmental organizations, within their respective mandates, and encourages nongovernmental organizations and relevant stakeholders, to promote innovative research and
development to address health needs in developing countries, including access to quality,
safe, efficacious and affordable medicines, and in particular with regard to diseases
disproportionately affecting developing countries, as well as the challenges arising from the
growing burden of non-communicable diseases;
10.
Invites the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, within his existing mandate,
while considering the many ways towards the full realization of the right to health,
including universal health coverage, to continue to focus on the issue of access to
medicines, including in his regular country missions.
38th meeting
13 June 2013
[Adopted by a recorded vote of 31 to 0, with 16 abstentions. The voting was as follows:
In favour:
Angola, Argentina, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte
d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kuwait, Libya,
Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Sierra Leone, Thailand,
Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Abstaining:
Austria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Montenegro,
Poland, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, United
States of America]
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