A/HRC/38/37 health-related Goal, and its targets cover a broad range of health concerns. These targets address: (a) maternal mortality (target 3.1); (b) preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age (target 3.2); (c) AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases, hepatitis, waterborne diseases and other communicable diseases (target 3.3); (d) premature mortality from non-communicable diseases, mental health and well-being (target 3.4); (e) the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol (target 3.5); (f) road traffic accidents (target 3.6); (g) universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes (target 3.7); (h) universal health coverage, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all (target 3.8); and (i) deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination (target 3.9). 15. Goal 3 targets also aim to: strengthen the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries (target 3.a); support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries and provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (target 3.b); substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States (target 3.c); and strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks (target 3.d). 16. Many of the targets deal with elements that resonate and are consistent with human rights norms and standards. For example, target 3.3 recalls the prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, occupational and other diseases envisaged in article 12 (2) (c) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, with control including the making available of relevant technologies, the use and improvement of epidemiological surveillance and data collection on a disaggregated basis and the implementation or enhancement of immunization programmes and other strategies of infectious disease control. 18 Under article 12 (2) (d) of the Covenant, universal health coverage, considered in greater detail below, entails the creation of conditions that would assure to all medical service and medical attention in the event of sickness. Access to medicines, covered in target 3.b, evokes one of the core obligations under the right to health. The human rights framework, particularly on the right to health, can positively contribute to the realization of the 2030 Agenda. The following section will consider how the right to health framework can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. IV. Applying the right to health framework in implementing the health-related Sustainable Development Goals A. Normative guidance 17. One of the key cross-cutting commitments of the 2030 Agenda is that its implementation should be in accordance with the rights and obligations of States under international law,19 including human rights norms and standards. States therefore have an imperative to integrate the key human rights principles and international norms and standards arising from the right to health into the framing and implementation of laws, policies and practices, in order to achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. 18. The High-Level Working Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents, co-convened in May 2016 by OHCHR and WHO to secure 18 19 6 See Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 14, para. 16. See General Assembly resolution 70/1, para. 18.