EXECUTIVE BOARD
EB144/CONF./6
144th session
26 January 2019
Agenda item 5.5
Primary health care towards
universal health coverage
Draft resolution proposed by Kazakhstan,
Mexico, Moldova, South Africa and Turkey
The Executive Board,
Having considered the report Primary health care towards universal health coverage,1
RECOMMENDS to the Seventy-second World Health Assembly the adoption of the following
resolution:
The Seventy-second World Health Assembly,
PP1. Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, in
particular Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 which calls on stakeholders to ensure healthy
lives and promote well-being for all individuals at all ages;
PP2. Reaffirming the commitments [,values,] (Ecuador) [and principles] (Peru, Brazil)
expressed in the ambitious and visionary Declaration of Alma-Ata of 1978 in pursuit of Health
for All (India, US, Uruguay, Australia, Peru, Brazil) (RESERVE EU);
PP3. Welcoming the convening of the Global Conference on [PHC]/[Primary Health
Care: from Alma-Ata towards UHC and the SDGs] (India) on 2526 October 2018 in Astana,
Kazakhstan, during which Member States renewed their commitment to PHC through a whole-
of-society approach around PHC as a cornerstone of a sustainable health system for UHC and
health-related SDGs; (RESERVE EU)
PP4. Recognizing that WHO's 13th General Programme of Work (20192023) defined
the essence of UHC as universal access to a strong and resilient people-centred health system with
primary care as its foundation; (DEL PP4: Uruguay, US, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, India)
PP4 ALT1. (EU) Recognizing that the United Nations General Assembly resolution
A/RES/67/81 acknowledges that universal health coverage implies that all people have access,
without discrimination, to nationally determined sets of the promotive, preventive, curative, and
rehabilitative basic health services needed and essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality
medicines, while ensuring that the use of these services