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“20. Calls upon all Governments to take measures to ensure that the
necessary resources are made available, in particular from donor countries and
also from national budgets, in line with the Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS;
“21. Invites the Secretary-General to consider the gender dimensions of
the epidemic when preparing the report requested by the General Assembly in
its resolution 60/224 of 23 December 2005 and in making all preparations for
and organizing the 2006 follow-up meeting on the outcome of the twenty-sixth
special session of the General Assembly;
“22. Recommends that the 2006 follow-up meeting on the outcome of
the twenty-sixth special session of the General Assembly take measures to
ensure the inclusion of gender-equality perspectives throughout its
deliberations and that it pay attention to the situation of women, the girl child
and HIV/AIDS;
“23. Decides to consider this question further at its fifty-first session.”
53. At the 14th meeting, on 10 March, the Commission had before it a revised
draft resolution, submitted by Botswana, on behalf of the States Members of the
United Nations that are members of the Southern African Development Community,
and Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mexico and Uruguay entitled “Women, the girl
child and HIV/AIDS” (E/CN.6/2003/L.2/Rev.1).
54. At the same meeting, the Commission was informed that the draft resolution
contained no programme budget implications.
55. Also at the 14th meeting, the representative of Botswana orally revised the
text, as follows:
(a) Two new preambular paragraphs were inserted before the fifth
preambular paragraph as follows:
“Taking note of the Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, as
adopted by the Second International Consultation on HIV/AIDS and Human
Rights, annexed to the report of the Secretary-General (E/CN.4/1997/37,
annex I),”
“Recognizing the need to ensure the respect, protection and fulfilment of
human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS,”;
(b) In the fifth preambular paragraph, the word “Also” was inserted after the
word “Recognizing”;
(c) In the seventh preambular paragraph, the words “including poverty” were
inserted after the words “economic and social status” and the words “premature and
early sexual relations, commercial sexual exploitation” replaced the words “crossgenerational sex, transactional sex”;
(d) In operative paragraph 10, the words “and that they are available to all
those who need them” were deleted;
(e) A new operative paragraph was inserted before operative paragraph 11,
as follows:
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