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“Also notes the World Health Assembly resolution 59.24 of 27 May 2006
establishing the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation,
Essential Health Research and Intellectual Property Rights;
“Requests the Secretary-General to continue to solicit comments from
Governments, United Nations organs, programmes and specialized agencies and
international and non-governmental organizations on the steps they have taken to
improve access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria and to submit a report thereon to the Council at any session after
its fourth session;
“Requests the Secretary-General, when submitting his report to the Human Rights
Council at any session after its fourth session, based on consultations with Governments,
United Nations organs, programmes, specialized agencies, intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations and private sector, to include a study on the exploration
of new and innovative financing mechanisms, bearing in mind the existing ones, which
can help to improve the access to medication that fight those pandemics, from the
perspective of human rights;
“Also requests the Secretary-General, when submitting his report to the Council at
any session after its fourth session, taking into consideration the discussions carried out
in the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation, Essential
Health Research and Intellectual Property Rights and in consultations with Governments,
United Nations organs, programmes, specialized agencies, intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations and private sector, to include an assessment of the
impacts of intellectual property rights on access to medication in the context of
pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from the perspective of human
rights.”
[See chap. III.]
2/108. The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health
At its 31st meeting, on 27 November 2006, the Human Rights Council decided, without a
vote, to adopt the following text:
“The Human Rights Council,
“Recalls all resolutions concerning the realization of the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health adopted by the
Commission on Human Rights;
“Considers paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006
establishing the Human Rights Council;
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