E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 20. Calls upon Governments to integrate HIV prevention, voluntary counselling and testing of HIV into other health services, including sexual and reproductive health, family planning, maternity and tuberculosis services, as well as the provision of services for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections in the maternal to child transmission services for pregnant women infected by HIV; 21. Encourages the continued collaboration among the co-sponsors of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international organizations to address and reduce the spread of sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS, in particular in the context of emergency situations and as part of humanitarian efforts, and to seek actively the achievement of results for women and girls, and encourages also the mainstreaming of a gender perspective throughout their work; 22. Requests the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its co-sponsors, and other United Nations agencies responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to integrate a gender and human rights perspective throughout their HIV/AIDS-related operations, including policy, planning, monitoring and evaluation, and to ensure that programmes and policies are developed and are resourced adequately to address the specific needs of women and girls; 23. Requests the Secretary-General, in a follow-up to his December 2005 letter to the United Nations Resident Coordinators on the establishment of joint United Nations teams on AIDS at the country level, to direct the United Nations Development Programme, as lead agency on technical support on gender and human rights within the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, to develop the HIV-related gender and human rights capacity for all United Nations staff providing technical assistance to Governments, to advance the national response to AIDS and to report on these efforts in 2008; 24. Encourages the United Nations to continue to support national monitoring and evaluation mechanisms in the context of the “Three Ones” principles, to enable the production and dissemination of comprehensive and timely information on the gender dimension of the pandemic, including through the collection of data disaggregated by sex, age and marital status, and in raising awareness about the critical intersection between gender inequality and HIV/AIDS; 25. Requests the Secretary-General to invite Member States to work in partnership with the Global Coalition on Women and HIV/AIDS, convened by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its partners, to mobilize and support a wide range of national actors, including women’s groups and networks of women living with HIV/AIDS, to ensure that national HIV/AIDS programmes are better able to respond to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls; 26. Encourages the United Nations system in its ongoing work in providing widespread information on the gender dimension of the pandemic, including through the collection of data disaggregated by sex, and in raising awareness about the critical intersection between gender equality and HIV/AIDS; 27. Requests Member States to work in partnership with the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS to ensure that the national HIV/AIDS programmes are better able to respond to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls; 18