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products, therapies and medical devices, and promote preventive and treatment
interventions and diagnostics for all those in need, in particular for the most
vulnerable;
11. Calls upon Member States to promote and strengthen, as appropriate, their
dialogue with other stakeholders, including civil society, academia and the private
sector, in order to maximize their engagement in and contribution to the
implementation of health goals and targets through an intersectoral and
multi-stakeholder approach, while at the same time safeguarding public health
interests from undue influence by any form of real, perceived or potential conflict of
interest, through the management of risk, the strengthening of due diligence and
accountability, the promotion of policy coherence and an increase in the transparency
of engagement;
12. Encourages the development of innovative and sustainable mechanisms to
ensure necessary and sustained health financing and enhance international
coordination and an enabling environment at all levels to strengthen health systems,
and promote universal access to quality health services, including throu gh
partnerships with civil society and the private sector;
13. Encourages Governments, the United Nations system, civil society, local
communities, the private sector and other stakeholders to scale up efforts on an urgent
basis to achieve the goals of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
2016–2021 Strategy and the 2016 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the
Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic
by 2030 15 as an important prerequisite and enabler for the achievement of the
Sustainable Development Goals, while recognizing the critical importance of the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in actively contributing to and
engaging in the follow-up and review process with respect to progress on the 2030
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14. Urges Member States to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive
health and reproductive rights, as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action
of the International Conference on Population and Development 5 and the Beijing
Platform for Action 4 and the outcome documents of their review conferences;
15. Notes with appreciation the framework of priorities and guiding principles
to promote the health of refugees and migrants prepared by the World Health
Organization, and invites all Member States, in accordance with their national
contexts, priorities and legal frameworks, to take into account the crucial importance
of addressing the physical and mental health needs of refugees, migrants and their
families in the development of a global compact on refugees and a globa l compact
for safe, orderly and regular migration;
16. Urges Member States to develop, implement and evaluate policies and
programmes that promote healthy and active ageing and the highest attainable
standard of health and well-being for older persons, and to develop health care for
older persons as part of primary care in the existing national health systems;
17. Calls upon all Member States to tackle health inequities and inequalities
within and across countries through political commitment and national policies that
address social, economic and environmental determinants of health, including
through health promotion, disease prevention and health care, and promoting
availability of and access to goods and services essential to health and well -being;
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