the TRIPS agreement and public health, and, whenformal acceptance procedures are completed, the amendment to article31 of the agreement, which provides flexibilities for the protectionof public health, and, in particular, to promote access to medicinesfor all, and encourage the provision of assistance to developingcountries in this regard.143.We call for further collaboration and cooperation at national andinternational levels to strengthen health systems through increasedhealth financing, recruitment, development, training and retention ofthe health work force, improved distribution and access to safe,affordable, effective and quality medicines, vaccines and medicaltechnologies, and through improving health infrastructure. We supportthe leadership role of the World Health Organization as the directingand coordinating authority on international health work.144.We commit to systematically consider population trends andprojections in our national, rural and urban development strategiesand policies. Through forward-looking planning, we can seize theopportunities and address the challenges associated with demographicchange including migration.145.We call for the full and effective implementation of the BeijingPlatform for Action, the International Conference on Population andDevelopment (ICPD) Programme of Action and the outcomes of theirreview conferences including the commitments leading to sexual andreproductive health and the promotion and protection of all humanrights in this context. We emphasize the need for the provision ofuniversal access to reproductive health, including family planningand sexual health and the integration of reproductive health innational strategies and programmes.146.We commit to reduce maternal and child mortality, and to improve thehealth of women, men, youth and children. We reaffirm our commitmentto gender equality and to protect the rights of women, men and youthto have control over and decide freely and responsibly on mattersrelated to their sexuality, including access to sexual andreproductive health, free from coercion, discrimination and violence.We will work actively to ensure that health systems provide thenecessary information and health services addressing the sexual andreproductive health of women, including working towards universalaccess to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable modern methodsof family planning, as this is essential for womens health andadvancing gender equalityPromotingfull and productive employment, decent work for all, and socialprotections147.We recognize that poverty eradication, full and productive employmentand decent work for all, and social integration and protection areinterrelated and mutually reinforcing, and that enabling environmentsto promote these needs to be created at all levels.148.We are concerned about labour market conditions and widespreaddeficits of available decent work opportunities, especially for youngwomen and men. We urge all governments to address the globalchallenge of youth employment by developing and implementingstrategies and policies that provide young people everywhere accessto decent and productive work, as over the coming decades, decentjobs will need to be created to be able to ensure sustainable andinclusive development and reduce poverty.149.We recognize the importance of job creation by investing in anddeveloping sound, effective and efficient economic and socialinfrastructure and productive capacities for sustainable developmentand sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth. We call oncountries to enhance infrastructure investment for sustainabledevelopment and we agree to support UN funds, programmes and agenciesto help assist and promote developing countries efforts,particularly the least developed countries, in this regard.150.We recognize the importance of job creation by adoptingforward-looking macroeconomic policies that promote sustainabledevelopment and lead to sustained, inclusive and equitable economicgrowth, increase