E/2007/27 E/CN.6/2007/9 survivors, particularly children and older persons, utilizing funds earmarked for care and support to reduce women’s disproportionate burden of care; 32. Urges Governments to continue to promote the participation and the significant contribution of people living with HIV/AIDS, young people and civil society actors in addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in all its aspects, including promoting a gender perspective, and to promote their full involvement and participation in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS programmes, as well as in creating an enabling environment to combat stigmatization; 33. Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to the Fund; 34. Reaffirms the need for Governments, supported by relevant actors, and all stakeholders, including civil society and the private sector, to intensify national efforts and international cooperation in the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS; 35. Stresses the importance of building up national competence and capacity to provide an assessment of the impact of the epidemic, which should be used in planning for prevention, treatment and care, and for addressing HIV/AIDS; 36. Urges the international community to complement and supplement, through increased international development assistance, efforts of the developing countries that commit increased national funds to fighting the HIV/AIDS pandemic, especially to address the needs of women and girls, particularly those countries most affected by HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, and in the Caribbean, countries at high risk of expansion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and countries in other affected regions whose resources for dealing with the epidemic are seriously limited; 37. Decides to consider this question further at its fifty-second session. Resolution 51/2 Ending female genital mutilation The Commission on the Status of Women, Recalling General Assembly resolutions, 56/128 of 19 December 2001, 58/156 of 22 December 2003 and 60/141 of 16 December 2005, and all other relevant resolutions, as well as the relevant agreed conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women, 19 Reaffirming that the Convention on the Rights of the Child9 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 20 together with their Optional Protocols, constitute an important contribution to the legal framework for the protection and promotion of the human rights of girls, __________________ 19 20 24 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 7 (E/2006/27), chap. I.D. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378. 07-28248