A/HRC/37/74 59. The Director of the Rights, Gender, Prevention and Community Mobilization Department at UNAIDS presented five themes the Forum had reiterated from previous discussions. First, discrimination affected different groups and people in different ways, hampering access to public goods and services. Second, the voices of the most affected people should be included in policy design and implementation, including by having civil society on the boards of international agencies. Third, communicable and noncommunicable diseases were all avoidable and had as a common denominator inequality and inequity in access to health services. Fourth, access to medicines should be ensured at affordable sustainable prices, by, for example, tackling the monopoly of intellectual property through TRIPS flexibility and price delinking mechanisms. Fifth, collection of disaggregated data could decrease the invisibility of inequity in access to services of specific populations. 60. The Director of the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, Michaela Clayton, noted that although there were many commonalities in the kinds of discrimination experienced in the health field, it was important to name the grounds of discrimination in the context of each health condition and explicitly name the key populations affected. In addition to challenges, many examples of good practice had been shared during the Social Forum and it was now time to act. Action should include scaling up people-centred programmes, funding human rights interventions, increasing access to justice and removing barriers to civil society participation. To ensure marginalized communities had access to services, the involvement of Ministries of Health was not enough; Ministries of Justice, of the Interior and of Security should also be engaged. She called for an increased role for OHCHR in health and for WHO in human rights. She also called for the issues of stigma and discrimination to be discussed at the World Health Assembly. 61. Concluding remarks were made by representatives of OHCHR, WHO, AfricAid, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Asia Pacific Transgender Network, the Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs, the Global Forum on MSM & HIV, the Coordinating Committee of the International Conference on AIDS, the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations, the People’s Health Movement, the Stop TB partnership, Swaziland Migrant Mineworkers Association and the World Social Forum. Participants mentioned groups facing specific challenges and offering opportunities, including health-care workers and students, migrant workers and undocumented migrants, refugees, people who used drugs, indigenous peoples, rural communities and the urban poor, children, adolescents transgender people, men who had sex with men, and sex workers. Empowering those groups was essential to ensure access and adherence to treatment. That could be done by focusing on general social needs as common denominators between the different groups. Those groups should also participate in collecting disaggregated data. Participants called for multi-stakeholder and multisectoral alliances. International human rights systems could be instrumental for promoting accountability in delivering the right to health. States should actively engage in international negotiations and cooperation to promote human rights in health, such as at the high-level meeting on tuberculosis to be convened by the General Assembly in 2018. Specific social policies should be provided to all. States should review counter-terrorism and other norms that attacked civil society space and funding. Many participants called for preventive approaches and more human rights education and awareness on the part of different stakeholders. IV. Conclusions and recommendations 62. The following conclusions and recommendations emerged from the 2017 Social Forum. A. Conclusions 63. The high level of engagement at the Social Forum demonstrated that human rights in the context of health and communicable diseases was an important topic on the agenda of different international organizations, Governments, organized civil 16