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Call for Contributions - OHCHR analytical study on key challenges in ensuring access to medicines, vaccines and other health products (HRC resolution 50/13)

Issued by

CESCR

presented to

56th session of the UN Human Rights Council

Report

Issued by Multiple Mechanisms

Subjects

Economic, social and cultural rights, Access to healthcare

Symbol Number

A/HRC/56/28

Background

Vaccine equity and access to medicines is a fundamental component of the full realization of the right to health. Vaccines, medicines and other health products must not only be produced and made available - they must also be accessible to all persons. Yet, access to vaccines, medicines and other health products remains disturbingly uneven in many places.

Council resolution 50/13 requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to prepare an analytical study on key challenges in ensuring access to medicines, vaccines and other health products to be presented to the Human Rights Council at the fifty-sixth session in June 2024.

In order to collect inputs for this forthcoming report, OHCHR has published a short questionnaire available in English, Français and Español.