a) To ensure the right of access to health facilities, goods and services on a non-discriminatory basis, especially for vulnerable or marginalized groups; b) To ensure access to the minimum essential food, which is nutritionally adequate and safe, to ensure freedom from hunger to everyone; c) To ensure access to basic shelter, housing and sanitation, and an adequate supply of safe and potable water; d) To provide essential drugs, as from time to time defined under the WHO Action Programme on Essential Drugs; e) To ensure equitable distribution of all health facilities, goods and services; f) To adopt and implement a national public health strategy and plan of action, on the basis of epidemiological evidence, addressing the health concerns of the whole population; the strategy and plan of action shall be devised, and periodically reviewed, on the basis of a participatory and transparent process; they shall include methods, such as right to health indicators and benchmarks, by which progress can be closely monitored; the process by which the strategy and plan of action are devised, as well as their content, shall give particular attention to all vulnerable or marginalized groups.98 344. The Court recalls its jurisprudence affirming the above-mentioned principles of the right to health, that: the “[e]njoyment of the human right to health as it is widely known is vital to all aspects of a person’s life and well-being, and is crucial to the realisation of all the other fundamental human rights and freedoms. This right includes the right to health facilities, access to goods and services to be guaranteed to all without discrimination of any kind.”99 345. The Court observes with relation to the physical health of PWA that owing to their skin condition which relates to reduced levels of melanin and the visual impairments which they are born with, primary health care dictates 98 99 Ibid, § 43. Ligue Ivorienne des Droits de l’Homme and Others v. Côte d’Ivoire, supra, § 169. 78

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