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confidentiality; and developing strategies to combat stigma and social exclusion
connected with the epidemic;
30. Pledge to eliminate gender inequalities, gender-based abuse and violence;
increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the
risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and services,
including, inter alia, sexual and reproductive health, and the provision of full access
to comprehensive information and education; ensure that women can exercise their
right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on, matters related to
their sexuality in order to increase their ability to protect themselves from HIV
infection, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion,
discrimination and violence; and take all necessary measures to create an enabling
environment for the empowerment of women and strengthen their economic
independence; and in this context, reiterate the importance of the role of men and
boys in achieving gender equality;
31. Commit ourselves to strengthening legal, policy, administrative and other
measures for the promotion and protection of women’s full enjoyment of all human
rights and the reduction of their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS through the elimination
of all forms of discrimination, as well as all types of sexual exploitation of women,
girls and boys, including for commercial reasons, and all forms of violence against
women and girls, including harmful traditional and customary practices, abuse, rape
and other forms of sexual violence, battering and trafficking in women and girls;
32. Commit ourselves also to addressing as a priority the vulnerabilities faced by
children affected by and living with HIV; providing support and rehabilitation to
these children and their families, women and the elderly, particularly in their role as
caregivers; promoting child-oriented HIV/AIDS policies and programmes and
increased protection for children orphaned and affected by HIV/AIDS; ensuring
access to treatment and intensifying efforts to develop new treatments for children;
and building, where needed, and supporting the social security systems that protect
them;
33. Emphasize the need for accelerated scale-up of collaborative activities on
tuberculosis and HIV, in line with the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006–2015, and for
investment in new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines that are appropriate for people
with TB-HIV co-infection;
34. Commit ourselves to expanding to the greatest extent possible, supported by
international cooperation and partnership, our capacity to deliver comprehensive
HIV/AIDS programmes in ways that strengthen existing national health and social
systems, including by integrating HIV/AIDS intervention into programmes for
primary health care, mother and child health, sexual and reproductive health,
tuberculosis, hepatitis C, sexually transmitted infections, nutrition, children
affected, orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, as well as formal and
informal education;
35. Undertake to reinforce, adopt and implement, where needed, national plans
and strategies, supported by international cooperation and partnership, to increase
the capacity of human resources for health to meet the urgent need for the training
and retention of a broad range of health workers, including community-based health
workers; improve training and management and working conditions, including
treatment for health workers; and effectively govern the recruitment, retention and
deployment of new and existing health workers to mount a more effective
HIV/AIDS response;
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