(c) Develop strategies designed to seek to reduce providers in order to ensure high-quality health services for women that can help eliminate discriminatory attitudes and practices by certain health professionals which impede women’s access to health services; and ensure that a gender perspective is developed and applied to treatment and prevention practice in the health sector; occupational concentration by gender to eliminate gender-based pay inequality, to ensure high-quality working conditions in the health work force, and to provide appropriate skills training and development. 8. International cooperation (g) In order to ensure that women’s rights are (a) Assure a strong political commitment by the addressed, the curricula of health-care providers should include relevant human rights topics to strengthen medical ethics and ensure that girls and women are treated with respect and dignity; international community to implement strengthened international cooperation for development and to mobilize domestic and international finance resources from all sources for development and the provision of health services for women; (h) Increase education and research among health ser- vice providers and users to address the unnecessary medicalization of women’s health conditions; (b) Promote progress in regard to external debt relief which, with improvement in the terms of trade, could help generate resources, both public and private, to expand and upgrade health services, with special attention to the physical and mental health of women; (i) Ensure, where indicated, that clinical trials of phar- maceuticals, medical devices and other medical products include women with their full knowledge and consent and ensure that the resulting data is analysed for sex and gender differences; (c) Encourage the international community, including bilateral donors and multilateral development organizations, to assist developing countries in ensuring the provision of basic social services, including health-care services for women, in particular during periods of economic difficulty; socially and gender sensitive approaches to structural adjustment policies are further encouraged; (j) Collect data concerning scientific and legal devel- opments on human genome and related genetic research and their implications for women’s health and women’s rights in general and disseminate such information and results of studies conducted in accordance with accepted ethical standards. 7. Health sector reform and development (d) Encourage concerted efforts, through enhanced cooperation and coordination to minimize the negative impacts and maximize the benefits of globalization and interdependence, to, inter alia, enhance the provision of health-care services in developing countries, especially for women; (a) Take action, in the context of health sector reform and development and growing diversification of the provision of care, to secure equal and equitable access to care for women and to ensure that health sector reform and development efforts promote women’s health; and address under provision of health care; (e) In the framework of international cooperation encourage sound macroeconomic policies and institutions to, inter alia, support the provision of health- care services for women. ■ (b) Take the opportunity provided by health sector reform and development to systematically integrate the process of gender analysis in the health sector and undertake gender impact assessments and monitoring of all health sector reforms and development to ensure that women benefit equally from them; Source: United Nations document E/1999/27 5