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(c)
Providing age-appropriate education on sexual and reproductive health, as
well as human rights education to all persons, including children and young people;
(d)
Considering harm-reduction programmes in relation to HIV as enumerated in
the technical guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention,
treatment and care for injecting drug users, published by the World Health Organizations,
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS, in accordance with relevant national circumstances;
(e)
Expanding access to voluntary and confidential counselling and testing, and
safe blood supplies;
(f)
Promoting testing and ensuring early and effective treatment of sexually
transmitted, co- and opportunistic infections;
(g)
Promoting policies that ensure effective prevention and accelerate research
and development into new tools for prevention, including microbicides and vaccines with
proven efficacy, as well as universal access to them;
9.
Calls upon all States, United Nations funds, programmes and specialized
agencies, international and non-governmental organizations and relevant stakeholders to
integrate HIV/AIDS services into comprehensive health-care services, and to facilitate the
incorporation of migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons into national and
regional HIV/AIDS strategies;
10.
Urges all States to eliminate gender-based discrimination, stigma, violence
and abuse to ensure that women can decide freely and responsibly on matters relating to
their sexuality through, inter alia, the provision of health-care services, including sexual and
reproductive health, information and education based on scientific evidence, and to
integrate the promotion and protection of reproductive rights, as understood in previous
international commitments, as components of national strategies on HIV/AIDS;
11.
Calls upon States and United Nations funds, programmes and specialized
agencies and international organizations, within their respective mandates, as well as nongovernmental organizations, and relevant stakeholders, to ensure the availability,
accessibility and affordability of medicines and health-care services for HIV-positive
pregnant women, with a view to eliminating vertical transmission and securing the health of
these women;
12.
Requests States to develop further and, where necessary, to establish
coordinated, participatory, gender-sensitive, transparent, evidence-informed and
accountable national HIV/AIDS policies and programmes, and to implement them at all
levels, including in prisons or other detention facilities, in cooperation with civil society,
including faith- and community-based organizations, women’s organizations, advocacy
groups and representatives of people living with HIV and other key populations;
13.
Calls upon States to address as a priority the vulnerabilities faced by children
and adolescents affected by and living with HIV, providing those children and their
families with support and rehabilitation, including social and psychological rehabilitation
and care, including pediatric services and medicines, and intensifying efforts to develop
early diagnosis tools, child-friendly medicine combinations and new treatments for
children, particularly for infants living in resource-limited settings, and building, where
needed, and supporting social security systems that protect them;
14.
Encourages all States to consider eliminating HIV-specific restrictions on
entry, stay and residence and ensure that people living with HIV are no longer excluded,
detained or deported on the basis of their HIV status;
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