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forms of violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional and
customary practices, female genital mutilation, domestic violence, abuse, child
marriage and forced marriage, rape, including marital rape, and other forms of
sexual violence and coerced sexual activity, battering and trafficking in women
and girls, and to ensure that violence against women is addressed as an integral
part of the national HIV and AIDS response;
“14. Also urges Governments, where they have not yet done so, to
institute and ensure the enforcement of laws to protect women and girls from
child and forced marriage and marital rape;
“15. Further urges Governments to prioritize and expand access to
treatment for all people in all settings, in a progressive and sustainable manner,
including the 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, inter
alia, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population
and Development, the Beijing 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 related pharmaceutical products, in particular for
women and girls, and to monitor access to treatment 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 HIVrelated 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
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