E/2014/27 E/CN.6/2014/15 2. Also reaffirms the commitment to achieve universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention programmes, treatment, care and support, and the resolve to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV, and stresses the urgency of significantly scaling up efforts towards meeting these goals, and in this regard looks forward to the review of the progress towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals and to the elaboration of the post-2015 development framework; 3. Further reaffirms the commitment to achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015, as set out in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and in Millennium Development Goal 5, which encompasses integrating this goal into strategies to attain internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration aimed at reducing maternal mortality, improving maternal health, reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality and empowering women, combating HIV and AIDS and eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; 4. Stresses the need to significantly increase and coordinate political and financial commitment to address gender equality and equity in national HIV and AIDS responses and to address HIV in the national gender response by responding to the specific needs of women and girls, including those living with and affected by HIV, and urges Governments to effectively reflect in their national policies, strategies and budgets the gender dimension of the epidemic, in line with the time-bound goals of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, as well as the goals of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development; 5. Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the empowerment of women and girls, including through access to education, health, including sexual and reproductive health, social protection programmes, civil registration and other nationality documentation and the right to property and inheritance, as well as to strengthen the economic independence of women, including through employment and income generation policies and strategies, decent work, political participation and decision-making at all levels, and to protect and promote the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for women and girls in order to enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection and to mitigate the impact of the epidemic; Urges Governments and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that 6. national HIV strategies comprehensively target women and girls at higher risk of HIV infection, and to take measures to ensure that HIV services are accessible and affordable to them; 7. Urges Governments and other relevant stakeholders to address the challenges faced by older women in accessing HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, as well as in caring for people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS, including orphaned children in vulnerable situations; 8. Encourages Governments and other relevant stakeholders to scale up efforts to address the vulnerability of women and girls to HIV in situations 14-02869 65/95