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47. Acknowledge the contribution of aid targeted at the health sector, while
recognizing that much more needs to be done. We call for the fulfilment of all
official development assistance-related 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 by 2015, as well as the commitments
contained in the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the
Decade 2011–2020, 11 and strongly urge those developed countries that have not yet
done so to make additional concrete efforts to fulfil their commitments;
48. Stress the importance of North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation,
in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, to promote at the
national, regional and international levels an enabling environment to facilitate
healthy lifestyles and choices, bearing in mind that South-South cooperation is not a
substitute for, but rather a complement to, North-South cooperation;
49. Promote all possible means to identify and mobilize adequate, predictable and
sustained financial resources and the necessary human and technical resources, and
to consider support for voluntary, cost-effective, innovative approaches for a longterm financing of non-communicable disease prevention and control, taking into
account the Millennium Development Goals;
50. Acknowledge the contribution of international cooperation and assistance in
the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, and in this regard
encourage the continued inclusion of non-communicable diseases in development
cooperation agendas and initiatives;
51. Call upon the World Health Organization, as the lead United Nations
specialized agency for health, and all other relevant United Nations system
agencies, funds and programmes, the international financial institutions,
development banks and other key international organizations to work together in a
coordinated manner to support national efforts to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases and mitigate their impacts;
52. Urge relevant international organizations to continue to provide technical
assistance and capacity-building to developing countries, especially to the least
developed countries, in the areas of non-communicable disease prevention and
control and promotion of access to medicines for all, including through the full use
of trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights flexibilities and provisions;
53. Enhance the quality of aid by strengthening national ownership, alignment,
harmonization, predictability, mutual accountability and transparency, and results
orientation;
54. Engage non-health actors and key stakeholders, where appropriate, including
the private sector and civil society, in collaborative partnerships to promote health
and to reduce non-communicable disease risk factors, including through building
community capacity in promoting healthy diets and lifestyles;
55. Foster partnerships between government and civil society, building on the
contribution of health-related non-governmental organizations and patients’
organizations, to support, as appropriate, the provision of services for the prevention
and control, treatment and care, including palliative care, of non-communicable
diseases;
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See Report of the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Istanbul,
Turkey, 9-13 May 2011 (United Nations publication, Sales No. 11.II.A.1), chap. II.
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