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to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection, in
full partnership with young persons, parents, families, educators and health-care
providers;
54. By 2005, reduce the proportion of infants infected with HIV by 20 per cent,
and by 50 per cent by 2010, by ensuring that 80 per cent of pregnant women
accessing antenatal care have information, counselling and other HIV-prevention
services available to them, increasing the availability of and providing access for
HIV-infected women and babies to effective treatment to reduce mother-to-child
transmission of HIV, as well as through effective interventions for HIV-infected
women, including voluntary and confidential counselling and testing, access to
treatment, especially anti-retroviral therapy and, where appropriate, breast-milk
substitutes and the provision of a continuum of care;
Care, support and treatment
Care, support and treatment are fundamental elements of an effective response
55. By 2003, ensure that national strategies, supported by regional and
international strategies, are developed in close collaboration with the international
community, including Governments and relevant intergovernmental organizations,
as well as with civil society and the business sector, to strengthen health-care
systems and address factors affecting the provision of HIV-related drugs, including
anti-retroviral drugs, inter alia, affordability and pricing, including differential
pricing, and technical and health-care system capacity. Also, in an urgent manner
make every effort to provide progressively and in a sustainable manner, the highest
attainable standard of treatment for HIV/AIDS, including the prevention and
treatment of opportunistic infections, and effective use of quality-controlled antiretroviral therapy in a careful and monitored manner to improve adherence and
effectiveness and reduce the risk of developing resistance; and to cooperate
constructively in strengthening pharmaceutical policies and practices, including
those applicable to generic drugs and intellectual property regimes, in order further
to promote innovation and the development of domestic industries consistent with
international law;
56. By 2005, develop and make significant progress in implementing
comprehensive care strategies to: strengthen family and community-based care,
including that provided by the informal sector, and health-care systems to provide
and monitor treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS, including infected children,
and to support individuals, households, families and communities affected by
HIV/AIDS; and improve the capacity and working conditions of health-care
personnel, and the effectiveness of supply systems, financing plans and referral
mechanisms required to provide access to affordable medicines, including antiretroviral drugs, diagnostics and related technologies, as well as quality medical,
palliative and psychosocial care;
57. By 2003, ensure that national strategies are developed in order to provide
psychosocial care for individuals, families and communities affected by HIV/AIDS;
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