Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 125
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63 (b). Commit to strengthening measures at the international, regional, national, and local and community levels to prevent crimes and violence against, and victimization of, people living with, at risk of and affected by HIV and foster social development and inclusiveness, integrating such measures into overall law enforcement efforts and comprehensive HIV policies and programmes as key to reaching the global AIDS fast-track targets and the Sustainable Development Goals, and reviewing and reforming, as needed, legislation that may create barriers or reinforce stigma and discrimination, such as age of consent laws, laws related to HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission, policy provisions and guidelines that restrict access to services among adolescents, travel restrictions and mandatory testing, including of pregnant women, who should still be encouraged to take the HIV test, to remove adverse effects on the successful, effective and equitable delivery of HIV prevention, treatment care and support progra mmes to people living with HIV;