The Seventeenth Health Ministers Meeting was held on 10 September 2026 in KualaLumpur, Malaysia.

RECALLING the Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future, adopted at the 46th ASEAN Summit on 26 May 2025, which formally adopted the ASEAN Community Vision 2045 on “Resilient, Innovative, Dynamic, and People-Centred ASEAN” the ASEAN Political-Security Community Strategic Plan, the ASEAN Economic Community Strategic Plan, the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Strategic Plan, and the ASEAN Connectivity Strategic Plan.

NOTING the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Strategic Plan envisions a peoplecentred, people-oriented, and interconnected with seamless movement of people, goods,and services and a strong sense of a shared ASEAN ownership and identity; as well asa Caring Community that enables its people to realise their full potential and enjoy abetter quality of life, including through a healthy ASEAN-population, with increased lifeexpectancy, well-being at all ages, safe from communicable and non-communicablediseases, Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and access to quality healthcare.

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