E/2008/27 E/CN.6/2008/11 needs of women and girls in HIV response and ensuring resources to support the development of capacities of women’s organizations for HIV programme development and implementation and to streamline funding procedures and requirements that will facilitate resource flows to community-level services; 36. Also urges Governments, the donor community and relevant entities of the United Nations system to ensure that gender equality implications are a key component of research, implementation and evaluation of new prevention methods and that such new prevention methods are part of a comprehensive approach to HIV prevention that protects and supports the rights of women and girls; 37. Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to the Fund; 38. Stresses the importance of building up national competence and capacity to provide an assessment of the drivers and impact of the epidemic, which should be used in planning for comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care and support and for mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS; 39. Urges the international community to complement and supplement, through increased international development assistance, efforts of the developing countries that commit increased national funds to fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, especially to address the needs of women and girls, in particular those countries most affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and in the Caribbean, countries at high risk of expansion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and countries in other affected regions whose resources for dealing with the epidemic are seriously limited; 40. Invites the Secretary-General to take into account the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on women and the gender dimensions of the epidemic when preparing the report requested by the General Assembly in its resolution 62/178 of 19 December 2007 and in making all preparations for and in the organization of the 2008 high-level meeting for a comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS; 41. Recommends that the 2008 comprehensive review meeting take measures to ensure the inclusion of gender-equality perspectives throughout its deliberations and that it pay attention to the situation of women and girls infected or affected by HIV/AIDS; 42. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women on the implementation of the present resolution by using information provided by Member States, relevant entities of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations, with a view to assessing the impact of the present resolution in addressing the feminization of HIV/AIDS. 08-29062 29