A/HRC/37/74 Parliamentarians, the private sector, law firms, faith-based institutions, celebrities, national mechanisms on the prevention of torture and others. 70. Much had been done in terms of international cooperation. However, to maintain the momentum created by the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, it was necessary to advance North-South and South-South cooperation in addressing human rights in the context of communicable diseases, and to ensure meaningful civil society and community engagement at all levels. Joint efforts for realizing economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the right to development, could contribute to the social and economic determinants of health. 71. Access to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines, vaccines, treatment and diagnosis was a necessary condition for the full enjoyment of the right to health in the context of communicable diseases. B. Recommendations 72. A number of priority areas for action had emerged from the discussions during the 2017 Social Forum to better promote and protect human rights in the context of HIV and other communicable diseases and epidemics. All stakeholders should better coordinate health and human rights-related work in a manner that breaks silos. At the international level, OHCHR, UNAIDS, WHO, WTO and other organizations should increase their cooperation to address human rights issues in the context of HIV and other communicable diseases and epidemics. At the national level, different governmental bodies should adopt common understandings to protect the human rights of especially affected groups by including their needs in national plans and policies. 73. The Sustainable Development Goals and the human rights framework should be seen as mutually reinforcing. Human rights should guide the implementation of health-related Sustainable Development Goals and in addressing communicable diseases. Countries should report on human rights in the context of HIV and other communicable diseases and epidemics during their universal periodic reviews and in their other periodic human rights reports, as well as in their voluntary national reviews on the Sustainable Development Goals. In implementing target 3.8 of the Goals on achieving universal health-care coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all, States should consider the development and strengthening of universal health-care systems and policies on access to medicines and vaccines, including through international cooperation. 74. To address epidemics from a human rights perspective, States should adopt, strengthen and implement evidence-based policies and programmes to tackle stigma, discrimination and criminalization of key populations. Stakeholders should collect data on how epidemics are having an impact on different populations in order to leave no one behind. Data should be disaggregated by, inter alia, age, sex, race, gender, urban/rural, social and legal status. Affected communities and civil society should meaningfully participate in data collection and analysis. States should take into account empirical evidence demonstrating positive outcomes of experiences related to the decriminalization of drug use and harm reduction projects and programmes in formulating national policies. 75. States and other stakeholders should protect the rights of marginalized communities to and through health. In doing so, power imbalances should be corrected by including the voices of those communities in policy design and implementation and data collection. They should be empowered through the joint struggle for and provision of more general social needs, such as quality education, health literacy, sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food, access to safe drinking water and sanitation, employment and effective access to justice. 18