E/2014/27
E/CN.6/2014/15
Myanmar, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, the Republic of Korea,
Romania, Samoa, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand,
Tonga, Turkey, Tuvalu, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
and Uruguay had joined in sponsoring the draft resolution. Subsequently, Benin,
Burundi, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Uganda also joined in sponsoring the draft
resolution.
83. At the same meeting, the Commission was informed that the draft resolution
contained no programme budget implications.
84. Also at the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution (see
chap. I, sect. D, resolution 58/2).
Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS
85. At the 15th meeting, on 20 March, the observer for Malawi, on behalf of the
States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Southern African
Development Community, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Women, the girl
child and HIV and AIDS” (E/CN.6/2014/L.5), which read:
The Commission on the Status of Women,
Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the
outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General
Assembly, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development, the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS, the 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, the 2011 Political
Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Intensifying Our Efforts to Eliminate HIV and
AIDS, the HIV and AIDS-related goals contained in the United Nations
Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals, in particular
the resolve of Member States to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse,
the spread of HIV, as well as the commitments on HIV and AIDS made at the
2005 World Summit, the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session
of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals, the 2013
special event to follow up efforts made towards achieving the Millennium
Development Goals and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development,
Welcoming the leadership and commitment shown in every aspect of the
HIV and AIDS response by Governments, people living with HIV, political and
community leaders, parliaments, regional and subregional organizations,
communities, families, faith-based organizations, scientists, health
professionals, donors, the philanthropic community, workforces, the business
sector, civil society and the media, including the African Union Roadmap on
Shared Responsibility and Global Solidarity for AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria Response in Africa,
Reaffirming that prevention, treatment, care and support for people living
with and affected by HIV and AIDS are mutually reinforcing elements of an
effective response that must be integrated into a comprehensive approach to
end the epidemic, and recognizing the need to ensure the respect, promotion,
protection and fulfilment of human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS,
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