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implementation of a regularly updated United Nations strategic plan for HIV/AIDS,
guided by the principles contained in the present Declaration;
45. Support greater cooperation between relevant organizations of the United
Nations system and international organizations combating HIV/AIDS;
46. Foster stronger collaboration and the development of innovative partnerships
between the public and private sectors, and by 2003 establish and strengthen
mechanisms that involve the private sector and civil society partners and people
living with HIV/AIDS and vulnerable groups in the fight against HIV/AIDS;
Prevention
Prevention must be the mainstay of our response
47. By 2003, establish time-bound national targets to achieve the internationally
agreed global prevention goal to reduce by 2005 HIV prevalence among young men
and women aged 15 to 24 in the most affected countries by 25 per cent and by 25
per cent globally by 2010, and intensify efforts to achieve these targets as well as to
challenge gender stereotypes and attitudes, and gender inequalities in relation to
HIV/AIDS, encouraging the active involvement of men and boys;
48. By 2003, establish national prevention targets, recognizing and addressing
factors leading to the spread of the epidemic and increasing people’s vulnerability,
to reduce HIV incidence for those identifiable groups, within particular local
contexts, which currently have high or increasing rates of HIV infection, or which
available public health information indicates are at the highest risk of new infection;
49. By 2005, strengthen the response to HIV/AIDS in the world of work by
establishing and implementing prevention and care programmes in public, private
and informal work sectors, and take measures to provide a supportive workplace
environment for people living with HIV/AIDS;
50. By 2005, develop and begin to implement national, regional and international
strategies that facilitate access to HIV/AIDS prevention programmes for migrants
and mobile workers, including the provision of information on health and social
services;
51. By 2003, implement universal precautions in health-care settings to prevent
transmission of HIV infection;
52. By 2005, ensure: that a wide range of prevention programmes which take
account of local circumstances, ethics and cultural values, is available in all
countries, particularly the most affected countries, including information, education
and communication, in languages most understood by communities and respectful of
cultures, aimed at reducing risk-taking behaviour and encouraging responsible
sexual behaviour, including abstinence and fidelity; expanded access to essential
commodities, including male and female condoms and sterile injecting equipment;
harm-reduction efforts related to drug use; expanded access to voluntary and
confidential counselling and testing; safe blood supplies; and early and effective
treatment of sexually transmittable infections;
53. By 2005, ensure that at least 90 per cent, and by 2010 at least 95 per cent of
young men and women aged 15 to 24 have access to the information, education,
including peer education and youth-specific HIV education, and services necessary
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