A/HRC/RES/32/16 Recalling the Declaration on the Right to Development, which, inter alia, affirms that States should take, at the national level, all measures necessary for the realization of the right to development and should ensure, inter alia, equality of opportunity for all in their access to basic resources, such as health services, Welcoming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,1 including its Goal 3, which highlights the importance of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, and recalling in that regard the adoption on 28 May 2016 by the World Health Assembly of its resolution WHA69.11 entitled “Health in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, Welcoming also the efforts of the World Health Organization, in cooperation with Member States, in enhancing capacity-building in global public health and in meeting the targets specified in Sustainable Development Goal 3, Expressing deep concern at the continued deleterious impact of infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola, tuberculosis and malaria and the increasing number of epidemics and health emergencies, and non-communicable diseases, which place major demands on health resources and capabilities, together with a heavy disease burden on many countries, in particular developing countries, including the least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, Recognizing the values and principles of primary health care, including equity, solidarity, social justice, universal access to services, multisectoral action, transparency, accountability and community participation and empowerment, Recognizing also the need to strengthen resilience and to promote integrated national health systems aimed at ensuring universal access to quality health-care services, universal health coverage and social infrastructures and services, including access to medicines and vaccines, to reinforce measures to eliminate discrimination of any kind in respect for and the promotion, protection and fulfilment of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health on the basis of equality, and in this regard to enhance access to information and education for all persons, especially for those in vulnerable situations, Convinced that strengthening public health is critical to the development of all Member States, and that economic and social development are enhanced through measures that strengthen capacity-building in public health, including training, recruitment and retention of sufficient public health personnel, and systems of prevention of and immunization against infectious diseases, Recognizing the importance of substantially increasing health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, Recognizing also the vital and complementary role of civil society in addressing and resolving challenges and issues that are important to society, including responding to public health crises, Stressing the importance of strengthening the participation of women in decisionmaking processes and developing gender-sensitive multisectoral health policies and programmes in order to address their needs, 1 2 General Assembly resolution 70/1.