A/HRC/29/33 9. From 9 to 11 December 2014, the Special Rapporteur was invited to attend the Programme Coordinating Board meeting of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, which took place in Geneva. In the context of that meeting, the Special Rapporteur participated in various meetings and events, including on harm reduction issues. 10. On 16 and 17 October 2014, the Special Rapporteur was invited to participate in the symposium on the rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities, which was organized by OHCHR Regional Office for Europe in Brussels. 11. From 18 to 20 February, the Special Rapporteur participated as panellist at the 2015 Social Forum, which took place in Geneva and focused on access to medicines in the context of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including best practices in this regard. D. Cooperation with non-governmental organizations 12. On 3 October 2014, the Special Rapporteur participated in an event on “Autism and Human Rights throughout the Life Course”, organized by the NGO Forum for Health and which took place in Geneva. III. Overview of the work of the mandate (2003–2014) 13. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right to of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health was originally established by the Commission on Human Rights in April 2002 in resolution 2002/31, and renewed in 2005 in resolution 2005/24. Subsequent to the replacement of the Commission with the Human Rights Council in June 2006, the mandate was endorsed and extended by the Council through resolutions 6/29, 15/22 and 24/6. 14. The new Special Rapporteur was appointed in August 2014 and feels privileged to have been given the opportunity to assess the realization of the right to health in the coming years. He will make use of his voice and of all tools available to discharge his mandate and contribute to the full enjoyment of the right to health by all. In his first report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur focuses on the work of the mandate, including challenges and opportunities, and on how he sees the way forward in the discharge of his functions. 15. During the first years of the existence of the mandate, the first Special Rapporteur, in collaboration with the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the World Health Organization (WHO), civil society and the academic sector, developed a framework for analysing the right to health with a view to making it easier to understand and apply to health-related policies, programmes and projects in practice. 16. The analytical framework that was developed consists of several key elements and has a general and inclusive application to all aspects of the right to health, including the underlying and social determinants of health and timely and appropriate medical care. The framework is intended to address the crucial question of what human rights in general, and what the right to health in particular, bring to policymaking process (see E/CN.4/2003/58, para. 9). That question remains valid today and will continue guiding the work of the Special Rapporteur. 17. The first mandate holder identified three primary objectives for the mandate: to promote — and encourage others to promote — the right to health as a fundamental human right; to clarify the contours and content of the right to health; and to identify good practices for the operationalization of the right to health at the community, national and 4