A/HRC/RES/12/27 page 6 11. Recalls the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property of the World Health Assembly, and urges States, relevant international organizations and other relevant stakeholders to support actively its wide implementation, in particular in the context of HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections; 12. Encourages all States to apply measures and procedures to enforce intellectual property rights in a manner that avoids the creation of barriers to legitimate trade of medicines, and to provide for safeguards against the abuse of such measures and procedures; 13. Urges all States to consider taking the steps necessary towards the elimination of criminal and other laws that are counterproductive to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support efforts, including laws directly mandating disclosure of HIV status or that violate the human rights of people living with HIV and members of key populations affected by the epidemic, and also urges States to consider the enactment of laws protecting these persons from discrimination in HIV prevention, treatment, care and support efforts; 14. Invites the human rights treaty bodies, when considering reports submitted by States parties, to give particular attention to the protection of human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS, and invites States to include appropriate relevant information in the reports they submit to the relevant treaty bodies; 15. Invites all special procedures, in particular the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, within their existing mandates, to contribute to the analysis of the human rights dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which particularly affects developing countries; 16. Encourages all States to consider including appropriate information on human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS in the national report to be submitted to the Council in the framework of the universal periodic review mechanism; 17. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare an analytical study based on comments from Governments, United Nations organs, programmes and specialized agencies, particularly the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its co-sponsor agencies, in cooperation with relevant bodies of the United Nations system, including the Office of the High Commissioner and international and non-governmental organizations, on the steps taken to promote and implement programmes to address HIV/AIDS-related human rights, as referred to in the Guidelines, the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS of 2001, the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS of 2006 and the present resolution, in the context of efforts towards the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, and to submit, in consultation with interested parties, a progress report to the Council for consideration at its sixteenth session. 32nd meeting 2 October 2009 [Adopted without a vote.]