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During his lecture, Ghebreyesus highlighted five key points:
Human rights and Sustainable Development Goals are equally important for the realisation of health for all.
States can – and must – balance realising health for all with protecting human rights.
Covid-19 has demonstrated that human rights are interconnected as health is a condition of other rights.
With vaccine programmes being developed, vulnerable communities must be prioritised and enough vaccines made available to poorer countries.
Finally, social measures taken to protect the health of a population must be taken in consultation with the public and communicated clearly to ensure the understanding that some personal rights (such as enforcing social distancing and wearing masks) must be sacrificed for the greater good.