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prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections and other HIV-related diseases
and the effective use of and adherence to antiretroviral medication, including
through access to clinical and laboratory testing and post-exposure prophylaxis,
with the full protection of their human rights, including their reproductive rights and
sexual health, in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Declaration 24 and
Platform for Action and other relevant international human rights instruments;
16. Urges Governments to promote access to affordable, high-quality, safe
and effective drugs, and HIV and maternal health-related pharmaceutical products
for women and girls, and to collect data on treatment disaggregated by age, sex,
marital status and continuity of care;
17. Requests Governments to promote and provide equal and equitable
access for all persons, throughout their life cycle, to social services related to health
care, including education, clean water and safe sanitation, nutrition, food security
and health, education programmes and social protection schemes, especially for
women and girls living with or affected by HIV and AIDS, including prevention and
treatment for opportunistic infections and other HIV-related diseases;
18. Calls upon Governments to intensify efforts to eliminate all forms of
discrimination against women and girls in relation to HIV and AIDS, including
through challenging gender stereotypes, stigmatization, discriminatory attitudes and
gender inequalities, and to encourage the active involvement of men and boys in this
regard;
19. Stresses that women and girls should be empowered to protect
themselves against violence and that, in this regard, women have the right to have
control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality,
including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and
violence;
20. Calls upon all Governments and the international donor community to
integrate a gender perspective in all matters of international assistance and
cooperation and to take measures to ensure that resources concomitant with the
impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls are made available, in particular in
funding provided to national HIV and AIDS programmes to promote and protect the
human rights of women and girls in the context of the epidemic, to promote
economic opportunities for women, including to diminish their financial vulnerability
and their risk of exposure to HIV, and to achieve the gender-related goals found,
inter alia, in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political
Declaration on HIV/AIDS;
21. Calls upon Governments to integrate HIV prevention, voluntary
counselling and voluntary testing of HIV into other health services, including sexual
and reproductive health, family planning, maternity and tuberculosis services, as
well as the provision of services for the prevention and treatment of sexually
transmitted infections in the mother-to-child transmission services for pregnant
women living with HIV;
22. Encourages the continued collaboration among the Secretariat and
co-sponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the Global Fund
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