A/RES/73/132 Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition Reaffirming the right to use, to the fullest extent, the provisions contained in the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), which provides flexibilities for the protection of public health and promotes access to medicines for all, in particular for developing countries, and the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which recognizes that intellectual property protection is important for the development of new medicines and also recognizes the concerns about its effects on prices, Recognizing that rapidly changing technologies, particularly digital technologies, have the potential to enhance people’s access to health services, to improve the responsiveness of the health system to the needs of individuals and communities, to increase the quality and efficiency of health services and to empower individuals and communities in healthy lifestyles and practices, Emphasizing that the United Nations system has an important responsibility and role to assist Member States in the follow-up to and full implementation of agreements and commitments reached at the major United Nations conferences and summits, especially those focusing on health-related areas, and emphasizing also the primary role of the World Health Organization, as the United Nations specialized agency for health, Recognizing the need for a strong global partnership for sustainable development, which engages all stakeholders, including the private sector, civil society, the United Nations system and other actors, to mobilize all necessary financial and non-financial means to collaboratively support the efforts of Member States to achieve health-related Sustainable Development Goals, including addressing the health needs of those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations, Recognizing also the work and collaboration between United Nations agencies focusing on nutrition-related programmes and activities, such as the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Committee on World Food Security and the Standing Committee on Nutrition, and other relevant agencies, along with regional economic commissions, and encouraging further collaboration on the matter, Reaffirming its resolution 71/243 of 21 December 2016 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system and the general guidelines and principles contained therein, and reaffirming also its resolution 72/279 of 31 May 2018 on the repositioning of the United Nations development system in the context of the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system, Emphasizing the importance of seeking synergies and collaboration with other relevant actors within and outside the United Nations system, such as the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Bank, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UNITAID, Gavi, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the Global Financing Facility in support of Every Woman, Every Child, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, the International Health Partnership for UHC2030, regional organizations, non -governmental organizations and the private sector, to address the health needs of those who are vulnerable or in vulnerable situations, Expressing concern that mechanisms addressing issues at the nexus between nutrition and global health, such as the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on 6/10 18-21867