C. Key targets and indicators

D. Key features of a strategy for realizing the right to health

29. 
    States should improve the supply of personal health services and make them more accessible to the poor by:
    

(b) Ensuring that resource allocation favours the poorer geographical regions;

(c) Ensuring that resource allocation favours the lower tiers of service delivery, i.e., primary care;

(d) Prioritizing reproductive, maternal (prenatal as well as post-natal) and child health care;

(e) Identifying diseases and medical conditions, such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, that have a particular impact on the poor and, by way of response, introducing immunization and other programmes that are specifically designed to have a particular impact upon the poor;

(f) Ensuring that all services are respectful of the culture of all individuals, groups, minorities and peoples, and are sensitive to gender and of good quality;

(g) Providing essential drugs as defined by the WHO Action Programme on Essential Drugs.

29. 
    States should improve the supply and effectiveness of public health interventions to the poor by:
    

(b) Ensuring the provision of clean, safe and accessible drinking water;

(c) Regulating health service provision, for example with a view to eliminating the marketing of unsafe drugs and reducing professional malpractice;

(d) Providing education and information about the main health problems in local communities, including methods of prevention and control.

29. 
    States must reduce the financial burden of health care and health protection on the poor, for example by reducing and eliminating user fees. This can be done either by moving away from user fees and introducing other pre-payment mechanisms (e.g., national insurance or general taxation) or by keeping user fees and introducing non-discretionary, equitable and non-stigmatizing interventions for the poor (e.g., exemption schemes, direct cash subsidies and vouchers).
    

29. 
    States should promote policies in other sectors that bear positively on the underlying determinants of health, entailing particular benefits for the poor, for example by supporting agricultural policies that have positive health outcomes for the poor (e.g., food security), by identifying measures that address the negative impact of agricultural policies on them (e.g., health and safety risks to agricultural labourers), and by generally promoting their income-generating activities.
    

29. 
    States must ensure that the poor are treated with equality and respect by all those involved in health care and health protection. Accordingly, States should provide all relevant health staff with anti-discrimination training in relation to disability and health status, including HIV/AIDS.