138th session Agenda item 6.3
EB138.R4 29 January 2016
Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: responses to specific assignments in preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable diseases in 2018 The Executive Board, Having considered the report on prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: responses to specific assignments in preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases in 2018,1 RECOMMENDS to the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly, the adoption of the following resolution: The Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly, Having considered the report on prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases: responses to specific assignments in preparation for the third High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable diseases in 2018; Recalling resolution WHA66.10 (2013), United Nations General Assembly resolutions 66/2 (2011), 68/300 (2013), 69/313 (2014) and 70/1 (2015), and United Nations Economic and Social Council resolutions 2013/12, 2014/10 and 2015/8, 1. NOTES the process to update, in 2016, Appendix 3 of the global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2020; 2. ENDORSES the process to further develop, in 2016, an approach that can be used to register and publish contributions of non-State actors to the achievement of the nine voluntary global targets for noncommunicable diseases; 3. URGES Member States to continue to implement the road map of national commitments included in United Nations General Assembly resolutions 66/2 and 68/300, including the four time-bound national commitments for 2015 and 2016, and other key commitments such as developing or strengthening surveillance systems to track social disparities in respect of
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EB138.R4
noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors and pursuing and promoting gender-based approaches for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases in preparation for a third High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable diseases in 2018, taking into account the technical note published by WHO on 1 May 2015, which sets out the progress monitor indicators that the Director-General will use to report to the United Nations General Assembly in 2017 on the progress achieved in the implementation of national commitments; 4. REQUESTS the Director-General: (1) to submit an updated Appendix 3 of the global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–2020, through the Executive Board, to the Health Assembly in 2017, in accordance with the timeline contained in Annex 2 of the report; (2) to submit an approach that can be used to register and publish contributions of non-State actors, through the Executive Board, to the Health Assembly in 2017, in accordance with the timeline contained in Annex 4 of the report. Twelfth meeting, 29 January 2016 EB138/SR/12
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