E/2010/27 E/CN.6/2010/11 and implementation, and to streamline funding procedures and requirements that will facilitate resource flows to community-level services; 38. 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; 39. Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to the Fund; 40. 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 and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support and for mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS; 41. 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 and AIDS pandemic, especially to address the needs of women and girls around the world, in particular those countries most affected by the HIV and AIDS pandemic, particularly in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and in the Caribbean; 42. Notes that the XVIII International AIDS Conference will be held in Vienna in July 2010; 43. Recommends that, in the process of the review of the Millennium Development Goals, gender-equality perspectives should be included throughout the deliberations and that attention should be paid to the situation of women and girls living with and affected by HIV and AIDS; 44. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its fifty-fifth session on the implementation of the present resolution, with an emphasis on accelerated actions taken in regard to women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, in accordance with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, using information provided by Member States, the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and non-governmental organizations, with a view to assessing the impact of the present resolution on the well-being of women and the girl child. Resolution 54/3 Release of women and children taken hostage, including those subsequently imprisoned, in armed conflicts* The Commission on the Status of Women, Guided by the purposes, principles and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, __________________ * For the discussion, see chap. II, paras. 94-96. 10-30576 13