Kanaga Raja for the Third World Network
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Geneva, 12 Jul – Access to medicines and vaccines is one of the fundamental elements for the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and the correspondent objectives of universal health coverage and health for all without discrimination, with special attention to reaching those furthest behind first.
This recognition came in a resolution (A/HRC/41/L.13) adopted without a vote by the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday.
The Council is currently holding its forty-first regular session which concludes on 12 July.
In its resolution, the Human Rights Council requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene, before the forty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council, a full-day inter-sessional seminar on good practices, key challenges and new developments relevant to access to medicines and vaccines as one of the fundamental elements of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, in coordination with the World Health Organization.
