primary health care, and specific measures to ensure coverage of all age groups including in particular in marginalised urban and rural areas. g. Set a target of allocating at least 15% of their annual budget to the improvement of the health sector. An appropriate and adequate portion of this amount must be put at the disposal of the national authorities responsible for the fight against malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other related diseases. h. Ensure that plans aim to ensure access for all to adequate medical care and treatment in the event of sickness or accident. i. Ensure that national plans and policies are designed to ensure that health systems are able to deal with an individual’s health holistically by addressing all aspects that may affect his/her health. j. Ensure that National Poverty Reduction Strategies, where applicable, include specific plans to realise the right to health. The right to health should be incorporated into development plans, which be based on health, social and environment impact assessments. k. Ensure that accountability is a central feature of the right to health and requires the incorporation and implementation of appropriate processes and mechanisms into all health policies. l. Ensure that all plans and policies, including particularly the local level, are developed and implemented in a transparent and participatory manner without discrimination to maximise community input. Consequently, plans should be aimed at improving the ability of health services to meet the needs of the population, through improvement of delivery of medicines, and other materials used in the prevention or treatment of diseases as well as improving laboratory facilities. m. Ensure education and access to information through mass media in local languages concerning the main health problems in the community, including methods of preventing and controlling them. n. Ensure that national plans should be designed to reflect a human rights approach to health indicators. They should also include an effective and accessible monitoring and accountability system. o. Ensure that the implementation of national health plans delivers continual improvement in the conditions of service for medical staff to ensure adequately staffed health facilities, to prevent brain drain and the improvement of national health infrastructure. p. Ensure that privatisation of the health sector does not constitute a threat to the availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of health facilities, goods and services. q. Ensure that national development plans and programmes are designed towards the realisation of a healthy environment that is conducive to the right to health, for example in matters relating to water resources management and sanitation. 25