Health, morbidity, mortality and development 2010, para. 16

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Document type
Resolution
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Notes with concern the feminization of the pandemic of HIV/AIDS, especially among young women, and the fact that women now represent 50 per cent of people living with HIV worldwide and nearly 60 per cent of people living with HIV in Africa and, in that regard, reaffirms the commitment to intensify efforts to ensure a wide range of prevention programmes that take account of local circumstances, ethics and cultural values, such as information, education and communication, as well as encouraging responsible sexual behaviour, including abstinence and fidelity, and expanded access to essential commodities, including female condoms and microbicides, through the adoption of measures to reduce costs and improve availability;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on Population and Development
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Women
  • Youth
Year
2010
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
CPD resolution, Health, morbidity, mortality and development (2010), OP 16.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
16