SIXTY-NINTH WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda item 12.4
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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 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;1 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 timebound national commitments for 2015 and 2016, and other key commitments such as developing or strengthening surveillance systems to track social disparities in respect of 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 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. NOTES that the Director-General has received two reports of the working groups of the WHO global coordination mechanism on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases that
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Document A69/10.
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recommend ways and means of encouraging Member States to realize the commitments included in paragraphs 44 and 45(d) of the 2011 Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases;1 5. 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 Seventieth World Health Assembly in 2017, in accordance with the timeline contained in Annex 2 of document A69/10; (2) to submit a report setting out 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, through the Executive Board, to the Seventieth World Health Assembly in 2017, in accordance with the timeline contained in Annex 4 of document A69/10; (3) to continue to provide, upon request, technical support to Member States to strengthen their efforts to implement national noncommunicable disease responses, including in the areas covered by the two reports of the working groups of the WHO global coordination mechanism on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, within the parameters set out in the Programme budget. Eighth plenary meeting, 28 May 2016 A69/VR/8 = = =
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See document A69/10, Annex 5: action 3.1, footnote 4; action 5.1, footnote 5.
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