A/HRC/32/25 contributions were not delivered due to lack of time, including those of Albania, Algeria, Angola, the Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, China, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, the Holy See, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Malaysia, the Netherlands, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Swaziland, Thailand, Tunisia, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and Viet Nam. 24. Representatives of the following non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations contributed to the discussions: the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (in a joint statement with Caritas Internationalis and World Vision International), the Center for Reproductive Rights (in a joint statement with the ATHENA Network, the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Vivo Positivo), the International Harm Reduction Association, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance (in a joint statement with the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Global Network of People Living with HIV, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the International AIDS Society, the Grandmothers’ Advocacy Network and the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries), the World Young Women’s Christian Association, and Action Canada for Population and Development. 25. The World Food Programme and the International Labour Organization also took the floor. Due to a lack of time, contributions were also registered but not delivered from the International Development Law Organization, the United Nations Office for Project Services, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Population Fund. 26. All speakers reaffirmed their commitment to ending HIV/AIDS, and there was a broad consensus that human rights should be at the core of global, regional and national strategies to end the epidemic. Several delegates emphasized that ending HIV/AIDS would require international human rights obligations to be fulfilled, and access to health care, treatment and medicines for all to be promoted. They stressed the importance of international cooperation in that regard, with some pointing out that in order for no one to be left behind, the international community needed to redouble its efforts, strengthening its cooperation on universal access to medicines and antiretroviral treatment. Speakers emphasized that the human right to health should be fulfilled for everyone, without discrimination, and that in order to reach the many in need who still did not have affordable access to antiretroviral drugs, States could make use of the flexibilities under the TradeRelated Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. 27. Several speakers underlined the importance of ending the discrimination, stigma and violence associated with HIV/AIDS, and identified a need for tailored approaches targeting those with heightened vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, including children and adolescents, women and girls, sex workers, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, people who injected drugs and prison inmates. Several speakers stressed the importance of eliminating punitive laws against those most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, for example the laws that criminalized, inter alia, drug users, same-sex relations, sex workers, and HIV nondisclosure, exposure or transmission. It was also noted that punitive approaches in relation to drug use were impeding global efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 28. Speakers pointed out that in order to bring about an effective, human rights-based response and end HIV/AIDS by 2030, a strengthened gender focus was needed. They identified gender-based inequality, discrimination and violence as causal factors in the continuing spread of HIV/AIDS, and stressed that it was necessary to end gender-based discrimination, for example by promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in society and ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Some speakers also noted the obligation of States to uphold children’s rights to health and life, by 8