Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition A/RES/73/132 protection, eradication of poverty and hunger, achieving gender equality and reducing inequalities, Underscoring the fact that global health is a long-term objective which is national, regional and international in scope and require s sustained high-level commitment and closer international cooperation, including far-reaching partnerships among stakeholders, and the need to safeguard the progress made and to advance by paying due attention to the continuity and sustainability of curre nt actions on global health, Affirming the primary responsibility of Member States to determine and promote their own path towards achieving universal health coverage that comprises universal and equitable access to quality health services and quality, e ssential, affordable and effective medicines for all, while ensuring that the use of such services and medicines does not expose the users to financial hardship, with particular attention to those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations, and that is critical to promote physical and mental health and well-being, especially through primary health care, health services and social protection mechanisms, including through community outreach and private sector engagement, and with the support of the international community, Recalling the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, adopted at the 2011 World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, which reaffirmed that health inequities within and between countries are politically, soci ally and economically unacceptable, as well as unfair and largely avoidable, and noting that many of the underlying determinants of health and risk factors of communicable and non-communicable diseases are associated with social, economic, environmental and behavioural conditions, Recognizing the outcome of the Global Conference on Primary Health Care and its contribution to the renewal of the commitments made through the Declaration of Alma-Ata of 1978 and the central role of primary health care in achie ving universal health coverage and contributing to health worldwide, Recalling the World Health Organization Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, 8 designed to promote medicinal innovation, build capacity and improve access to medicines, encouraging further discussions on access to medicines, and reiterating that health research and development should be needs-driven, evidence-based, guided by the core principles of affordability, effectiveness, efficiency and equity and considered a shared responsibility, recalling the report of the High-level Panel on Access to Medicines, including its recommendations, Recalling also the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and its Framework for Action, 9 which provides a set of voluntary policy options and strategies for use by Governments, as appropriate, adopted by the Second International Conference on Nutrition, to enhance sustainable food systems by developing coherent public policies from production to consumption and across relevant sectors to provide year-round access and affordability to food that meets people’s nutrition needs and promote safe and diversified healthy diets and to empower people and create an enabling environment for making informed choices about food products for healthy dietary practices and appropriate infant and young child feeding practices through improved health and nutrition information and education, Recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger and all forms of malnutrition, and encouraging international cooperation and assistance to __________________ 8 9 18-21867 See World Health Organization, document WHA61/2008/REC/1. World Health Organization, document EB136/8, annexes I and II. 3/10