A/HRC/32/44 (c) Take into account the impact of women’s safety on their physical and mental health and protect women and girls from violence at home, on their way to or at school and in other public spaces and in health facilities; (d) Adopt a holistic approach towards women’s health and safety by looking at their full life cycle from childhood to old age as interconnected phases with distinct considerations and needs, and in this regard: (i) Take effective measures to prevent child marriage and adolescent pregnancies and provide girls with comprehensive education based on scientific evidence on matters of health, including sexuality; (ii) Address the gender discrimination that exists in some cultures in the provision of food to the girl child, including through the empowerment of women and girls; (iii) Allow pregnant girls and adolescents to terminate unwanted pregnancies, as a measure of equality and health, so that they can complete their school education and protect them from the high risk to life and health, including from obstetric fistula, in continuing to bring a pregnancy to term; (iv) Reduce maternal mortality and morbidity by ensuring proper prenatal, birthing and post-natal care, including, where necessary, safe termination of pregnancy. (v) Reduce the high incidence of maternal mortality among women with HIV/AIDS, both by preventing infection, particularly of women in prostitution/sex workers, and by free and secure provision of condoms and of antiretroviral treatment for pregnant women; (vi) Provide adequate nutrition and free services for pregnant and lactating women, as required by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; (vii) Ensure that laws, policies and practices mandate respect for women’s autonomy in their decision-making, especially regarding pregnancy, birthing and postnatal care; (viii) Provide gender- and age-sensitive health-care services for older women, taking cognizance of their heightened health and safety vulnerability; (e) Provide special protection and support services to women facing multiple forms of discrimination, and in this regard: (i) Ensure that health services, including reproductive and sexual health, for women with disabilities are available and accessible on an equal basis with others and that their autonomy and decision-making, including in relation to their sexuality and reproduction, are guaranteed in accordance with the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; (ii) Provide health-care coverage for migrant women and domestic workers, whose sexual and reproductive health, preventive health care and protection against gender-based violence are otherwise prejudiced; (iii) Ensure social and health-care benefits, entitlements and protection to lesbians and bisexual and transgender persons without discrimination; (iv) Provide access to preventive and remedial health services for women in prison, including in relation to cervical and breast cancer, contraception, 20