The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 15ll
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- [The Commission urges Governments, [...] to take the following actions [...]:] (ll) Emphasize the importance of HIV prevention as a long-term strategy to reduce the number of new HIV infections and, consequently, to reduce the burden of caregiving responsibilities on both women and men through universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support programmes, including sexual and reproductive health and services, and to increase access to voluntary and confidential counselling and HIV testing, investments in HIV/AIDS and sex education and awareness, based on full and accurate information in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child, with appropriate direction and guidance, research and development of, and access to, new, safe, quality and affordable HIV/AIDS prevention products, diagnostics, medicines and treatment commodities, including female-controlled methods, and new preventive technologies and microbicides and AIDS vaccines;
- Legal status
- Negotiated soft law
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2009
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- CSW Agreed Conclusions, The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS (2009), para. 15ll.
- Paragraph number
- 15ll
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