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(a) To gather, request, receive and exchange information from all relevant sources,
including Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, on the
realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health, as well as policies designed to achieve the health-related Millennium
Development Goals;
(b) To develop a regular dialogue and discuss possible areas of cooperation with all
relevant actors, including Governments, relevant United Nations bodies, specialized agencies
and programmes, in particular the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS, as well as non-governmental organizations and international financial
institutions;
(c) To report on the status, throughout the world, of the realization of the right of
everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and
on developments relating to this right, including on laws, policies and good practices most
beneficial to its enjoyment and obstacles encountered domestically and internationally to its
implementation;
(d) To make recommendations on appropriate measures to promote and protect the
realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health, with a view to supporting States’ efforts to enhance public health;
(e) To submit an annual report to the Human Rights Council and an interim report to the
General Assembly on its activities, findings, conclusions and recommendations;
2.
Encourages the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling her/his mandate:
(a) To continue to explore how efforts to realize the right of everyone to the enjoyment
of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health can reinforce poverty reduction
strategies;
(b) To continue the analysis of the human rights dimensions of the issues of neglected
diseases and diseases particularly affecting developing countries, and also the national and
international dimensions of those issues;
(c) To continue to pay particular attention to the identification of good practices for the
effective operationalization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health;
(d) To continue to apply a gender perspective in her/his work and to pay special
attention to the needs of children and other vulnerable and marginalized groups in the realization
of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health;
(e) To pay due attention to the rights of persons with disabilities in the context of the
realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health;
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