From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">United Nations General Assembly - Sixty-seventh
session Agenda item 123 <u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Adopted by UNGA on December 12, 2012<br>
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CONSENSUS TEXT, GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENCOURAGES MEMBER STATES TO PLAN, <br>
PURSUE TRANSITION OF NATIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS TOWARDS UNIVERSAL COVERAGE….”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“….Calls for more attention to health as an important
cross-cutting policy issue in the international agenda, as it is a precondition
and an outcome and indicator of all three dimensions of sustainable
development, and for the recognition that global health challenges require
concerted and sustained efforts to further promote a global policy environment
supportive of global health and sustainable development; <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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3. Invites Member States to recognize the links between the promotion of universal
health coverage and other foreign policy issues, such as the social dimension
of globalization, cohesion and stability, inclusive and equitable growth and
sustainable development and sustainability of national financing mechanisms, and
the importance of universal coverage in national health systems, especially through
primary health care and social protection mechanisms, including nationally determined
social protection floors; <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> 4. Also invites Member States to adopt a multisectoral
approach and to work on determinants of health within sectors including, as
appropriate, through the health-in-all-policies approach, while taking into
consideration the social, environmental and economic determinants of health,
with a view to reducing health inequities and enabling sustainable development,
and stresses the urgent need to act on social determinants for the final push
towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals; ….”<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">“….7. Reaffirms the leading role of the World Health
Organization and the important role of the United Nations system in enhancing
the visibility of health issues in the different international forums and in
supporting Member States in responding to the challenges of the implementation
of universal health coverage; <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Social protection and universal
health coverage <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> 8. Recognizes the responsibility of Governments to
urgently and significantly scale up efforts to accelerate the transition
towards universal access to affordable and quality health-care services; <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> 9. Also recognizes that effective and financially
sustainable implementation of universal health coverage is based on a resilient
and responsive health system that provides comprehensive primary health-care
services, with extensive geographical coverage, including in remote and rural
areas, and with a special emphasis on access to populations most in need, and
has an adequate skilled, well-trained and motivated workforce, as well as
capacities for broad public health measures, health protection and addressing
determinants of health through policies across sectors, including promoting the
health literacy of the population; <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> 10. Acknowledges that universal health coverage implies
that all people have access, without discrimination, to nationally determined
sets of the needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative basic
health services and essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality
medicines, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the
users to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable
and marginalized segments of the population;…” </span></font><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">[Snippets]</span></font></i><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <br>
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