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Overview

The special theme of the 58th session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD), taking place in April 2025, is 鈥淓nsuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages鈥�. As part of the substantive preparations for the annual session, the Population Division of UN DESA will convene an expert group meeting on 16 and 17 October 2024 to discuss the special theme. The meeting will review the latest evidence and analyses in relation to the theme, drawing from the experience of countries in all regions.

Since the founding of the 51吃瓜, health has been recognized as a fundamental right of every human being. The right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health was first articulated in the 1946 Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), whose preamble defines health as 鈥渁 state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity鈥�. This right was further reaffirmed in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in many international and regional human rights treaties. 

The Programme of Action adopted by Governments at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994, also recognizes that everyone has the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and calls for increasing the availability and affordability of health-care services to provide access to basic health care for all. It also calls for increased investments in health infrastructure, the training of health-care personnel, and the integration of health policies with broader development strategies. In addition, the Programme of Action identified a series of quantitative health-related goals, including the reduction of infant, child and maternal mortality and the provision of universal access to a full range of reproductive health services, such as family planning. 

The comprehensive health-related goals identified in the ICPD were integrated and further elaborated in the , including as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 3, "Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages", includes 13 targets covering health topics ranging from reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and infectious and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to universal health coverage and measures to strengthen health systems. Other underlying determinants of health that are addressed in the SDGs include ensuring access to education, decent work, nutritious and sufficient food, and safe and sanitary living environments, as well as ending poverty and hunger and promoting gender equality and just, peaceful and inclusive societies. 

Documents

• Concept note 
• Agenda
• Organization of work
• List of participants
• Biographies of speakers