CSP29.R2 - Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030

THE 29th PAN AMERICAN SANITARY CONFERENCE, 

Having considered the Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030: A call to action for health and well-being in the Region (Documents CSP29/6, Rev. 3 and Add. I); 

Observing that the Sustainable Health Agenda constitutes the framework for policy and strategic planning on health in the Region of the Americas that will serve to guide PAHO’s strategic plans and the national plans of the Member States, while fostering cohesion among them; 

Taking note that the health authorities of the Region have decided that this Agenda is a call for collective action to achieve higher standards of health and well-being in the new regional and global context, and that it represents the response of the health sector to the commitments made by PAHO’s Member States in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Health Agenda for the Americas 2008-2017, as well as the emerging regional challenges surrounding public health; 

Recognizing that the Countries Working Group, made up of delegates of the ministries and secretariats of health of 16 Member States in representation of each subregion of the Hemisphere and with the support of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau in its role as technical secretariat, has worked intensely and has held consultations with the Member States on the subject in order to develop a proposal for the new Agenda in a participatory and inclusive manner,