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designed to eliminate HIV-related stigma and discrimination, so as to ensure
the dignity, rights and privacy of people living with and affected by HIV and
AIDS;
24. Stresses that women and girls should be empowered to protect
themselves against violence and that, in this regard, women have the right to
exercise control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to
their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion,
discrimination and violence;
25. Calls upon all Governments, the international donor community
and relevant entities of the United Nations system to prioritize programmes
addressing the specific needs of women and girls, particularly those most
vulnerable and at risk, in the HIV response and to take measures to ensure that
resources commensurate with the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls
are made available, in particular in funding provided to national HIV and
AIDS programmes designed to promote and protect the human rights of
women and girls in the context of the epidemic, to promote economic
opportunities for women, including to diminish their financial vulnerability
and their risk of exposure to HIV, and to achieve the gender-related goals set
out, inter alia, in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the 2006
and 2011 Political Declarations on HIV/AIDS;
26. Urges Governments, the donor community and relevant entities of
the United Nations system to support the development of capacities of
women’s organizations for HIV and AIDS programme development and
implementation and to streamline funding procedures and requirements that
will facilitate resource flows to community-level services;
27. Calls upon Governments to integrate HIV prevention, treatment,
care and support, including confidential voluntary counselling and testing and
elimination of mother-to-child/vertical transmission, with other primary healthcare services, including those for tuberculosis and sexual and reproductive
health-care services such as family planning, maternal health and prevention and
treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including those causing infertility
and cervical cancer, and encourages Governments to strive towards universal
health coverage, meeting the needs of women and girls living with HIV;
28. Encourages the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and
its co-sponsors, bilateral and multilateral donors and intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations to intensify their support to empower women
and girls, and engage men and boys, and prevent HIV infection through
measures to ensure promotion and effective implementation of combination
prevention and to give urgent and priority attention to the situation of women
and girls;
29. Requests the Secretariat and co-sponsors of the Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations agencies, funds
and programmes responding to the HIV and AIDS epidemic, as well as the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international
organizations, to mainstream a gender and human rights perspective
throughout their HIV- and AIDS-related operations, including policy, planning,
monitoring and evaluation, that includes sex- and age-disaggregated
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