A/HRC/RES/15/22 Reaffirming that access to safe and clean water for personal and domestic use, as well as sanitation and nutrition, has a fundamental impact on the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Recognizing the need for States, in cooperation with international organizations and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to create favourable conditions at the national, regional and international levels to ensure the full and effective enjoyment of the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Concerned about the interrelatedness between poverty and the realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in particular the fact that ill health can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty, Recalling the commitments made by the international community to implement fully the health-related Millennium Development Goals, Stressing that gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are fundamental elements for their health, including sexual and reproductive health, in the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and that the advancement of women and girls is a key factor in attaining the health-related Millennium Development Goals, in particular the improvement of maternal health and the reversal of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and noting the importance of increasing investments in and accelerating research on the development of effective HIV prevention methods, including female-controlled methods and microbicides, Recalling that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, Recalling also its resolutions 5/1 on institution-building of the United Nations Human Rights Council and 5/2 on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that the mandate holder shall discharge his or her duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto, 1. Decides to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as established in paragraph 1 of resolution 6/29, for a further period of three years; 2. Encourages the Special Rapporteur, in fulfilling his mandate: (a) To continue to explore how efforts to realize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health can reinforce poverty reduction strategies; (b) To continue the analysis of the human rights dimensions of the issues of neglected diseases and diseases particularly affecting developing countries, and also the national and international dimensions of those issues; (c) To continue to pay particular attention to the identification of good practices for the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, without discrimination; (d) To explore the ways in which the international community can assist developing countries in promoting the full realization of the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, taking into account the renewed commitments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals as outlined in the outcome 3

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