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Eradication of poverty
21. Calls upon States and the international community to cooperate, support and
participate in the global efforts for poverty eradication at the global, regional and country levels,
to intensify efforts so that all development and poverty reduction goals, as set out in the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, are realized within their time framework, and reaffirms
that investments in children and the realization of their rights contribute to their social and
economic development, and are among the most effective ways to eradicate poverty;
Right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health
22.
Calls upon all States:
(a) To take all necessary measures to ensure the right of the child to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and to develop sustainable health
systems and social services, to ensure access to such systems and services without
discrimination, paying particular attention to adequate food and nutrition to prevent disease and
malnutrition, to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to prenatal and post-natal health
care, to the special needs of adolescents, to reproductive and sexual health and to threats from
substance abuse and violence;
(b) To address, as a matter of priority, the vulnerabilities faced by children affected by
and living with HIV by providing support and rehabilitation to those children, their families and
caregivers, by promoting child-oriented HIV/AIDS policies and programmes, increased
protection for children orphaned and affected by HIV, and by involving children, their caregivers
and the private sector, to ensure access to affordable and effective prevention, care and
treatment, including through correct information, access to voluntary and confidential testing,
reproductive health care and education, access to pharmaceutical products and medical
technologies, by intensifying efforts to develop new treatments for children and prioritizing
prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the virus, and by building, where needed, and
supporting social security systems to protect them;
Right to education
23.
Calls upon all States:
(a) To recognize the right to education on the basis of equal opportunity and
non-discrimination by making primary education available, free and compulsory for all children,
by ensuring that all children, particularly girls, children in need of special protection, children
with disabilities, indigenous children, children belonging to minorities and children of different
ethnic origins, internally displaced and refugee children and children living in conflict-affected
areas and countries and children affected and living with HIV/AIDS have access to good quality
education, as well as making secondary education generally available and accessible for all, in
particular by the progressive introduction of free education, bearing in mind that special
measures to ensure equal access, including affirmative action, contribute to achieving equal
opportunity and combating exclusion;
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