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correct and consistent use of condoms and equality between men and women
within a culturally and gender-sensitive framework;
12. Also urges Governments and other relevant stakeholders to address
the situation faced by women and girls who provide care and/or economic
support for people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS, who are often
forced to drop out of school or employment, by increasing the provision of
resources, support and facilities to the survivors and caregivers, in particular
children, especially in women- and child-headed households, and older
persons, as well as to facilitate the balanced sharing of the provision of care by
both men and women;
13. Further urges Governments to ensure that the rights of children in
child-headed households, many of whom have been orphaned as a result of the
HIV/AIDS epidemic, are respected and that the heads of such households have
full enjoyment of all the rights of the child, and to further ensure that children
in child-headed households, particularly girls, receive the support they need to
ensure their continued attendance in school;
14. Urges Governments and other relevant stakeholders to address the
situation faced by children and young persons, especially girls, who may be
forced into child labour, including the worst forms of child labour, as a result
of death or illness of family members or caregivers, and to protect these
children and young persons from violence, including gender-based violence,
sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, including commercial sexual exploitation,
trafficking and labour exploitation;
15. Also urges Governments to take measures to integrate, inter alia,
family and community-based approaches in policies and programmes aimed at
providing prevention, treatment, care and support to women and girls living
with or affected by HIV and AIDS;
16. Further urges Governments to ensure, in the context of prevention
programmes for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, accessible and
affordable procurement of safe and effective prevention commodities,
including male and female condoms, post-exposure prophylaxis and, where
applicable, pre-exposure prophylaxis, to ensure that their supply is adequate
and secure, and to promote ongoing research, including that for safe and
effective microbicides;
17.
Urges Governments:
(a) To commit to remove before 2015, where feasible, obstacles that
limit the capacity of low- and middle-income countries to provide affordable
and effective HIV prevention and treatment products, diagnostics, medicines
and commodities and other pharmaceutical products, as well as treatment for
opportunistic infections and co-infections, and to reduce costs associated with
lifelong chronic care, including by amending national laws and regulations, as
deemed appropriate by respective Governments, so as to optimize: the use, to
the full, of existing flexibilities under the World Trade Organization
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS
Agreement) specifically geared to promoting access to and trade in medicines,
and, while recognizing the importance of the intellectual property rights
regime in contributing to a more effective AIDS response, ensure that
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