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all groups of civil society to address the gap in access to services for injecting drug users in
all settings, including prisons, to develop comprehensive models of appropriate service
delivery for injecting drug users, to tackle the issues of stigmatization and discrimination,
and to support increased capacity and resources for the provision of a comprehensive
package of services for injecting drug users, including harm-reduction programmes in
relation to HIV, as elaborated by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in the
Technical Guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention,
treatment and care for injecting drug users, in accordance with relevant national
circumstances,
Welcoming the attention given to HIV/AIDS-related human rights by all the human
rights treaty bodies,
Welcoming also the positive steps taken to implement previous resolutions,
including the enactment of legislation in some countries to promote human rights in the
context of HIV/AIDS and to prohibit discrimination against all persons infected or
presumed to be infected, living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, and members of all
populations vulnerable to and affected by the epidemic, but noting with concern that one
third of countries still do not have laws protecting people living with HIV/AIDS from
discrimination,
Welcoming further the significant role played by 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 United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, national and international non-governmental
organizations, in particular organizations of people living with HIV/AIDS, in promoting
and protecting human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS, including fighting discrimination
against people living with HIV/AIDS and in the full range of prevention, treatment, care
and support activities,
Recalling that HIV-related stigma and discrimination are major obstacles to an
effective HIV response and that discrimination on the basis of HIV or AIDS status, actual
or presumed, is prohibited by existing international human rights standards and that the
term “or other status” in non-discrimination provisions in international human rights texts
should be interpreted as covering health status, including HIV/AIDS,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the protection of human rights
in the context of HIV and AIDS (A/HRC/10/47), in which the Secretary-General provides
an overview of action taken by a number of Governments, specialized agencies and
international and non-governmental organizations on the implementation of the Guidelines,
and which addresses issues of technical cooperation for the promotion and protection of
human rights in the context of HIV,
1.
Calls upon all States, United Nations programmes and specialized agencies,
and international and non-governmental organizations to continue to take all necessary
steps to ensure the respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights in the context of
HIV/AIDS, as referred to in the Guidelines, as an essential part of efforts to achieve the
goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support;
2.
Also calls upon all States to implement in full the Declaration of
Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted by the General Assembly at its special session on
HIV/AIDS, on 27 June 2001, and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, adopted by the
Assembly at its High-level Meeting on HIV/AIDS on 2 June 2006;
3.
Invites States, United Nations organs, programmes and specialized agencies
and international and non-governmental organizations to assist developing countries, in
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