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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
early 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 effective use of and adherence to antiretroviral
medication, including through access to clinical and laboratory testing and
post-exposure prophylaxis, and to promote access to affordable, high quality,
safe and effective drugs and related pharmaceutical products, in particular for
women and girls;
16. Urges Governments to ensure that women and girls have equitable
and sustained access to treatment for HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections
and other HIV-related diseases, appropriate to their age, health and nutritional
status, 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 and the Beijing Platform for Action and other relevant
international human rights instruments, and to protection from coerced sexual
activity 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 women and men 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/AIDS,
including treatment for opportunistic infections and other HIV-related
diseases;
18. Calls upon Governments to intensify efforts to eliminate all forms
of discrimination against women and girls in relation to HIV/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 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/AIDS on women and girls are made available, in particular in
funding provided to national HIV/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
financial vulnerability and risk of exposure to HIV, and to achieve the gender-
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