A/HRC/RES/32/16 Emphasizing the importance of timely international cooperation in the area of health, and in particular in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, particularly during outbreaks and emergencies, including the need to cooperate on health research and development and tackling antimicrobial resistance based on the principles of mutual respect and equality, and in the context of the International Health Regulations (2005) of the World Health Organization, with a view to strengthening capacity-building in public health, especially in developing countries, through, inter alia, the exchange of information and the sharing of experience, and research and training programmes focusing on surveillance, prevention, control, response, and care and treatment, Emphasizing also, in accordance with the International Conference on Population and Development, the importance of ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes, Noting the ongoing work of the High-level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth, established by the Secretary-General on 2 March 2016, 1. Urges Member States and the international community to increase investment, building on existing mechanisms and through partnership, to improve health systems in developing countries and countries with economies in transition with the aim of providing sufficient health workers, infrastructures, management systems and supplies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030; 2. Calls upon Member States to take the primary responsibility for strengthening their capacity-building in public health to detect and respond rapidly to outbreaks of major infectious diseases through the establishment and improvement of effective public health mechanisms, including full implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005), and strategies for training, recruitment and retention of sufficient public health personnel, and systems of prevention and of immunization against infectious diseases; 3. Encourages States to promote access to medicines for all, including through the use, to the full, of the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights which provide flexibility for that purpose, recognizing that the protection of intellectual property is important for the development of new medicines, as well as the concerns about its effects on prices; 4. Welcomes in this regard South-South, North-South and triangular cooperation, and recognizes the commitment to explore opportunities for further SouthSouth cooperation as a complement, not a substitute, to North-South cooperation; 5. Recognizes the fundamental relevant importance of the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed; 6. Stresses the importance of enhancing international cooperation in the area of public health in the aftermath of natural disasters to support national efforts to cope in all phases of the response, and urges Member States and the international community to strengthen their cooperation programmes, preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery in this regard; 7. Acknowledges the contribution of aid targeted towards the health sector, while recognizing that much more needs to be done, and calls upon States to fulfil their respective official development assistance commitments, including the commitments by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of gross national income for official development assistance, and urges those developed countries that have not done so to make concrete efforts in this regard in accordance with their commitments; 3