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Reaffirming the importance of achieving Millennium Development Goal 6 (to
combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases), and noting that poverty, inequality and
food insecurity increase people’s vulnerability to HIV, posing increased risks of infection to
populations in every region while at the same time undermining the socio-economic
conditions of people living with HIV or those affected by the epidemic,
Recalling that stigma and discrimination are major obstacles to an effective HIV
response, that discrimination on the basis of HIV status, actual or presumed, is prohibited
by existing international human rights standards, and that the term “or other status” in nondiscrimination provisions in international human rights texts should be interpreted as
covering health status, including HIV/AIDS,
Reaffirming that the full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for
all is an essential element in the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including in
the areas of prevention, care, support and treatment, and that such a response reduces
people’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and prevents stigma and related discrimination against
people living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS,
Emphasizing, in view of the increasing challenges presented by HIV/AIDS,
including apparent trends to enact criminal and other laws that are counterproductive to
HIV prevention, treatment, care and support efforts and the ongoing application of HIVspecific restrictions on the entry, stay and residence of HIV-positive people, the need for
intensified efforts to ensure universal respect for and observance of human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all in order to reduce vulnerability to HIV, prevent HIV/AIDSrelated discrimination and stigma and reduce the impact of AIDS,
Recalling Commission on the Status of Women resolutions 53/2 of 13 March 2009
and 54/2 of 12 March 2010,
Bearing in mind the vision of zero new infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and
zero discrimination in the global HIV/AIDS response, referred to in the 2011-2015 Strategy
of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS,
Recalling Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolutions 53/9, on achieving universal
access to prevention, treatment, care and support for people who use drugs and people
living with or affected by HIV, and 53/4, on promoting adequate availability of
internationally controlled licit drugs for medical and scientific purposes while preventing
their diversion and abuse, of 12 March 2010, and encouraging their implementation within
the framework of national legislation,
Noting International Labour Organization Recommendation concerning HIV and
AIDS and the World of Work, 2010 (No. 200), adopted at the ninety-ninth International
Labour Conference,
Noting also resolution 63.19 of 21 May 2010, entitled “WHO HIV/AIDS strategy
for 2011-2015”, of the World Health Assembly,
Reaffirming the outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the
General Assembly, entitled “Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals”, contained in General Assembly resolution 65/1 of 22 September
2010,
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 63/33 of 26 November 2008, 64/108 of 10
December and 65/95 of 9 December 2010, on global health and foreign policy,
Noting the establishment, in June 2010, of the Global Commission on HIV and the
Law,
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