In draft resolution IV on agreed conclusions of the Commission on critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing Platform for Action, the Council would endorse the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission with respect to the two critical areas of concern addressed by the Commission at its forty-third session — women and health, and institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women. In its agreed conclusions on women and health, the Commission reconfirmed the targets identified in the Platform for Action and recommended accelerated efforts for their implementation. The Commission called for the provision of maternal and essential obstetric care, including emergency care. It requested the enactment of laws to eliminate sexual violence against women and girls, and the elimination of stigmatization and social exclusion surrounding infectious diseases. It called for the development of preventive and remedial health services and the provision of appropriate counselling and treatment for mental disorders in women and girls. Research was to be undertaken into the gender differences in the causes and effects of the use and abuse of substances, including narcotic drugs and alcohol, and measures aimed at occupational and environmental health to protect women workers in all sectors, including agricultural and domestic household workers, were outlined. The Commission recommended mainstreaming a gender perspective into the curricula and training of all health-care and service providers, and using the opportunity provided by health sector reform and development to integrate gender analysis systematically into the health sector. In its agreed conclusions on institutional mechanisms, the Commission requested Governments to ensure that senior management in each ministry or agency take the responsibility for fulfilling gender equality commitments and integrating a gender perspective in all activities, and promote effective monitoring mechanisms. It requested that Governments give visibility to the relationship between remunerated and unremunerated work and its importance to gender analysis. It further urged Governments to ensure that the needs, rights and interests of women were identified and mainstreamed into policy and programme development. The Commission also requested that Governments coordinate with non-governmental organizations and civil society in national and international activities, including elaborating national action plans and implementing the Platform for Action. The international community, including the United Nations, was called upon to implement agreed conclusions 1997/2 of the Economic and Social Council. It was also called upon to develop gender action plans for the achievement of gender balance in conformity with Article 101 of the Charter of the United Nations. The Division for the Advancement of Women of the United Nations Secretariat was requested to expand the directory of national machineries to facilitate communication among national machineries around the world. In draft decision I on enabling the Commission to carry out its mandate, the Council would decide that the Commission should continue to meet annually after the year 2000, for a period of 10 working days. In draft decision II, the Council would take note of the report of the Commission on its forty-third session and approve the provisional agenda and documentation for its forty-fourth session. iv