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national priorities, including through the United Nations Development Assistance
Framework;
39. Requests all human rights treaty bodies and the human rights
mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, including the special procedures, to
adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of
their mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis
of violations of the human rights of women and girls, and encourages the
strengthening of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
40. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed
to provide comprehensive HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support,
particular attention and support are given to the girl child at risk, living with or
affected by HIV, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers and
girls with disabilities, with a view to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, in
particular to halt and begin to reverse by 2015 the spread of HIV;
41. Invites States to promote initiatives aimed at reducing the prices of
antiretroviral drugs, especially second-line drugs, available to the girl child,
including bilateral and private sector initiatives as well as initiatives on a voluntary
basis taken by groups of States, including those based on innovative financing
mechanisms that contribute to the mobilization of resources for social development,
including those that aim to provide further access to drugs at affordable prices to
developing countries on a sustainable and predictable basis, and in this regard takes
note of the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID;
42. Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the
goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe
and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active
and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS, other
communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases;
43. Urges States and the international community to increase resources at all
levels, particularly in the education and health sectors, so as to enable young people,
especially girls, to gain the knowledge, attitudes and life skills that they need to
overcome their challenges, including the prevention of HIV infection and early
pregnancy, and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health, including sexual and reproductive health;
44. Stresses the need to strengthen the commitment of States and the United
Nations system in their responsibility to mainstream the promotion and protection of
the rights of the child, in particular the girl child, in the development agenda at the
national, regional and international levels;
45. Urges States, the international community, the relevant United Nations
entities, civil society and international financial institutions to continue to actively
support, through the allocation of increased human and financial resources, targeted
innovative programmes that address ending female genital mutilation and
developing and providing education programmes, such as the United Nations
Population Fund-United Nations Children’s Fund joint programme on accelerating
the abandonment of female genital mutilation, and sensitization workshops on the
dire consequences of this harmful practice for the health of the girl, and to provide
training programmes for those who perform the harmful procedure so that they may
adopt an alternative profession;
46. Stresses that a common coordinated approach that promotes positive
social change at the community, national and international levels could lead to the
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