A/HRC/37/74 care to be strengthened, and for parties to conflicts to respect commitments concerning access to health care. She stressed that data systems in conflict settings were fragile and required new partnerships. G. Building synergies for health: engaging diverse partners 41. UNAIDS International Goodwill Ambassador and Chair of The Foundation for AIDS Research, Kenneth Cole, praised the achievements that had been made since the first awareness campaigns on HIV/AIDS in 1985, but reiterated that there was still much to be done. Empowering those with the least resources was crucial to advancing the fight against AIDS. It was important to connect and leverage resources beyond silos for making progress with regard to the human rights, including the right to health, of people living with HIV. For example, the Foundation’s efforts to help find a cure for AIDS by 2020 would be an important contribution to the efforts of UNAIDS to end AIDS by 2030. 42. A senior human rights lawyer from the DLA Piper global law firm, Emily Christie, spoke of the role private law firms played in assisting affected populations to access justice, which was essential in order to achieve universal access to health care. In 2016, around 130 law firms had contributed some 2.5 million hours of pro bono legal support worldwide. Her firm had been working with partners to create enabling and protective legal environments and challenging harmful laws through law reform, legislative drafting and public interest litigation. It had also worked on strengthening civil society and communities, assisting them to engage with human rights monitoring mechanisms, supporting access to legal services and providing training on health-related rights. It had assisted commercial clients to integrate human rights in their operations. Pro bono work could effectively contribute to achieving health, human rights and justice for all when undertaken in partnership with experts in the field, civil society groups, governments, NGOs and United Nations organizations. 43. A representative of the Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs, Dzmitry Subtselny, described Belarusian programmes to combat HIV, which included access to treatment, measures to protect the confidentiality of patients’ status and specific training for health workers. Many members of vulnerable groups, such as people who used drugs, sex workers and men who had sex with men, avoided treatment due to concerns regarding the disclosure of their status. Civil society organizations acted on harm reduction, online educational work on HIV-related issues, and carried out advocacy on protecting the human rights of vulnerable groups. They also planned to monitor the quality of health-related services to the affected population and the degree to which those services respected human rights. Those activities were possible thanks to financial and technical support from the United Nations system to Governments and civil society in middle-income countries. 44. A member of the Moldovan Council for the Prevention of Torture, Svetlana Doltu, said that the main health issues in the penitentiary system of Moldova were drug dependency, viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and multidrug resistant tuberculosis, and combinations thereof. Despite the challenges it faced, the Republic of Moldova complied with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and provided the prison population with the same health-care standards as the rest of the population without discrimination based on their status. Treatment to prisoners affected by communicable diseases was provided in close partnership with NGOs, including by engaging former prisoners. The Council for the Prevention of Torture worked to improve prison conditions, addressing the social determinants of health and the provision of HIV prevention services. While challenges remained in addressing prisoners’ health issues in Moldova, much had been achieved thanks to the work of many partners, including international organizations that had provided technical and financial support. 45. During the interactive dialogue, the moderator and representatives of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Global Human Rights Clinic took the floor. They asked about the role of business and sports communities, children, medical doctors, confessional groups, law students and women’s organizations. Participants also 12