Emphasizes the negative impact of HIV-related stigma, especially for women and girls, in seeking and accessing HIV and AIDS programmes, and urges Governments to develop and implement policies and programmes designed to eliminate HIV-related stigma and discrimination, so as to ensure that the dignity, rights and privacy of people living with HIV and affected by AIDS, in particular women and girls, especially in the context of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, are protected;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Health
Person(s) affected
Children
Girls
Women
Year
2011
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
CSW resolution, Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS (2011), OP 35.