Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 17

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Stresses the importance of governments, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes in developing and implementing strategies to improve infant HIV diagnosis, including through access to diagnostics at the point of care, significantly increasing and improving access to treatment for children and adolescents living with HIV, including access to prophylaxis and treatments for opportunistic infections, and promoting a smooth transition from paediatric to adult treatment and related support and services, while taking into account the need to put in place programmes focused on delivering services to HIV-negative children born to women living with HIV, as they are still at high risk of morbidity and mortality, and developing actions to limit post-delivery transmission through breastfeeding through the provision of information and education;
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Girls
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
OP
Reference
CSW resolution, Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS (2016), OP 17.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
17