E/2014/27 E/CN.6/2014/15 5. Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the empowerment of women and girls and to protect and promote the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection, and to mitigate the impact of the epidemic, 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 incomegeneration policies and strategies, decent work, political participation and decision-making at all levels; 6. Emphasizes the need for Governments and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that national HIV strategies and programmes comprehensively target women and girls in vulnerable groups and in populations that epidemiological evidence shows are at higher risk of HIV infection, and to take measures to ensure that HIV services are accessible, non-discriminatory 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 of armed conflict and post-conflict, humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters, including prevention of sexual and gender-based violence and continuous provision of antiretroviral treatment; 9. Urges Governments and other relevant stakeholders to address the increased vulnerability to HIV faced by women and girls with disabilities, ensuring their equal access to prevention, treatment, care and support, as an integral part of their HIV and AIDS response; 10. Emphasizes the need to strengthen policy and programme linkages and coordination between HIV and AIDS and sexual and reproductive health, and their inclusion in national development plans, and the need to design gender-based policies aimed at social and economic equality, including poverty reduction strategies and sector-wide approaches, where they exist, as a necessary strategy for fighting the HIV epidemic and mitigating its impact on the population, which could result in more relevant and cost-effective interventions with greater impact; 11. Urges Governments to strengthen initiatives that would increase the capacities of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from HIV infection, principally through the provision of health-care services, including for sexual and reproductive health, and that integrate HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and include voluntary counselling and testing, including through effective HIV prevention education that takes into account the epidemiological and national context, while also recognizing the importance of reducing risk-taking behaviour, and encouraging responsible sexual behaviour, including abstinence and fidelity, delay of sexual debut, 14-02869 75/95