E/2001/27 E/CN.6/2001/14 adult HIV infected, while teenage girls are infected at a rate of five to six times greater than their male counterparts. 2. Full enjoyment by women and girls of all human rights, civil, cultural, economic, political and social, including the right to development — which are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated — is of crucial importance in preventing further spread of HIV/AIDS. The majority of women and girls do not fully enjoy their rights, in particular to education, the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and social security, especially in developing countries. These inequalities begin early in life and render women and girls more vulnerable in the area of sexual and reproductive health, thus increasing their risk and vulnerability to HIV infection and their disproportionate suffering from the consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 3. Poverty, negative and harmful traditional and customary practices that subordinate women in the household, community and society render women especially vulnerable to HIV/STI. Millions of women and girls lack access and/or have insufficient access to health care, medication and social support in general, including in the case of sexually transmitted infections/HIV/AIDS. 4. The Commission on the Status of Women has taken into account the recommendations on women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS as addressed in the following documents: the Beijing Platform for Action,31 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,32 the Copenhagen Programme of Action,33 the outcome documents of the twenty-first, twenty-third and twenty-fourth special sessions of the General Assembly, 34 the United Nations Millennium Declaration,35 the agreed conclusion of the Commission on the Status of Women on women and health,36 and Commission resolution 44/2. 5. The Commission recalls the internationally agreed targets as contained in the documents referred to in paragraph 4, and suggests that the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS should fully integrate a gender perspective, including in any new targets, and focus on actions needed to achieve existing targets. 6. The Commission welcomes the Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and other Related Infectious Diseases, in particular its gender dimension, adopted by the Organization of African Unity at its Special Summit on HIV/AIDS, held at Abuja, Nigeria, in April 2001. 7. The Commission notes with appreciation the efforts of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its co-sponsors, bilateral and multilateral donors, governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in __________________ 31 32 33 34 35 36 See Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 ( U n i t e d Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 S e p t e m b e r 1 9 9 4 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution I, annex. Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6-12 March 1995 ( U n i t e d Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution I, annex II. See General Assembly resolutions S-21 /2, annex, S-23/2, annex, S-23/3, annex and S-24/2, annex. General Assembly resolution 55/2. Economic and Social Council resolution 1999/17. 9