; Whereas the United Nations has played a critical role in improving global public health, including through the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; Whereas the World Health Organization, a United Nations specialized agency, serves as a multilateral coordinating body responsible for monitoring and leading the response to outbreaks of infectious disease, spearheading vaccination efforts, and developing campaigns to combat life-threatening illnesses like polio and malaria; Whereas the World Health Organization played a central role in the eradication of smallpox in 1979, to date the only human disease ever to be eradicated; Whereas the United Nations Population Fund aims to end unmet need for family planning, end preventable maternal deaths, and end gender-based violence and harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation by 2030 in all countries, including those affected by conflict and disaster; Whereas the United Nations Population Fund has helped reduce maternal mortality by half since 1990; Whereas the United Nations Children’s Fund is active in 190 countries and territories to reach the children and young people in greatest need; Whereas the United Nations World Food Program reaches more than 86,000,000 people in 83 countries annually; Whereas today, with global population displacement at the highest level recorded since World War II, the World Food Program, together with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Children’s Fund, and other United Nations agencies, is feeding, clothing, and sheltering millions from Syria to Iraq to the Central African Republic and beyond