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To consider taking the steps necessary for the elimination of criminal and
other laws that are counterproductive to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support
efforts, including laws directly mandating disclosure of HIV status or that violate the
human rights of people living with HIV and members of key populations affected by the
epidemic, and to consider the enactment of laws protecting these persons from
discrimination in HIV prevention, treatment, care and support efforts;
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To promote human rights education and training for health professionals, as
appropriate;
5.
Recognizes that the Doha Ministerial Declaration on the Agreement on
Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health confirms that the
Agreement does not and should not prevent States members of the World Trade
Organization from taking measures to protect public health and that the Declaration, while
reiterating the commitment to the Agreement, affirms that it can and should be interpreted
and implemented in a manner supportive of the rights of States members of the World
Trade Organization to protect public health and, in particular, to promote access to
medicines for all; and further recognizes, in this connection, the right of States members of
the World Trade Organization to use, to the full, the provisions of the above-mentioned
Agreement, which provide flexibility for this purpose;
6.
Also recognizes the indispensable role that health professionals play in the
promotion and protection of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health, and welcomes the adoption at the sixty-third World
Health Assembly of the Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health
Personnel;
7.
Welcomes the creation of the Medicines Patent Pool Foundation by
UNITAID, with a view to improving access to appropriate, affordable antiretrovirals in
developing countries;
8.
Recalls the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation
and Intellectual Property of the World Health Assembly, and urges States, relevant
international organizations and other relevant stakeholders to actively support its wide
implementation;
9.
Calls upon the international community to continue to assist developing
countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including through financial and
technical support and training of personnel, while recognizing that the primary
responsibility for promoting and protecting all human rights rests with States;
10.
Invites all international organizations with mandates having a bearing on the
right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health to take into account the national and international obligations of their members
related to the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health;
11.
Requests the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of
the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, with the assistance of the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in consultation with
States, relevant United Nations agencies, national human rights institutions and other
relevant stakeholders, to prepare, within existing resources, a thematic study on the
realization of the right to health of older persons, including the main existing challenges
and best practices;
12.
Decides to address the thematic study requested in paragraph 11 above,
within existing resources, at a panel discussion within the programme of work of its
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