E/1999/27 E/CN.6/1999/10 12. Requests Governments to ensure that condoms and care for sexually transmitted diseases are available in places accessible and affordable to women while ensuring their privacy; 13. Welcomes the efforts of the Joint and Co-sponsored United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in promoting sexual and reproductive health education for young people, in particular girls, while encouraging them to delay sexual initiation, and, in this context, urges that greater attention must be given to the education of men and boys about their roles and their responsibilities in preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, to their partners; 14. Urges the Programme and its co-sponsors to intensify their efforts in assisting Governments to determine the best policies and programmes to prevent women and young girls from becoming infected with HIV/AIDS; 15. Requests the Programme and its co-sponsors, bilateral and multilateral donors, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, in their efforts to prevent HIV infection, to give urgent and priority attention to the situation of women and girls in Africa; 16. Invites the relevant entities of the United Nations system, including agencies, funds and programmes, to mainstream gender policies and programmes integrating HIV/AIDS activities; 17. Invites the Secretary-General to report to the Commission on the Status of Women at its forty-fourth session on the implementation of the present resolution. Resolution 43/3. Women and mental health, with emphasis on special groups The Commission on the Status of Women, Reaffirming the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women28 that women have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Recalling that the Platform for Action, in the critical area on women and health,30 included women’s mental health on the agenda for women’s empowerment, by asserting that health was a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, women had the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, health and well-being eluded the majority of women, and one of the major barriers for women to the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health was gender-based inequality, Upholding the importance of attaining full mental health for all people, as recognized in General Assembly resolution 46/119 of 17 December 1991, entitled “The protection of persons with mental illness and the improvement of mental health care”, Welcoming the strong commitments to women and mental health made by the Director General of the World Health Organization at the forty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Concerned that, in many parts of the world, depression affects more women than men, owing, among other factors, to the inferior social and economic status of women and girls, Concerned also that women throughout their life cycle experience tremendous health burdens created by gender discrimination, all forms of violence, including domestic and sexual 30 28 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II, para. 89.