E/2003/27 E/CN.6/2003/12 “2. Reaffirms the need for Governments, supported by relevant actors, to continue to implement the commitments on HIV/AIDS contained in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and to effectively reflect in their national policies and strategies the gender dimension of the pandemic, in line with the goals set for 2005; “3. Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to strengthen women’s economic independence and to protect and promote their human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to allow them to protect themselves from HIV infection; “4. Welcomes the financial contributions made towards the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, in fulfilment of paragraph 80 of the Declaration of Commitments on HIV/AIDS; “5. Encourages the continued collaboration and cooperation of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and other United Nations agencies to cope with the growing links between HIV/AIDS and other humanitarian programmes; “6. Welcomes the establishment by the United Nations Development Fund for Women of its new online resource centre and web portal on gender and AIDS, which will provide widespread information on the gender dimension of the pandemic and more appreciation of the critical intersect. between gender inequality and HIV/AIDS; “7. Calls for enhanced efforts at gender mainstreaming in the development of HIV/AIDS programmes and policies, in the training of personnel involved in implementing such programmes and in mass media reporting; “8. Invites the Secretary-General, in his reports on HIV/AIDS, to take a gender perspective into account.” 40. At the 14th meeting, on 14 March, the Commission had before it the text of a revised draft resolution (E/CN.6/2003/L.2/Rev.2) submitted by Angola, on behalf of the Southern African Development Community,2 and also on behalf of Benin, Cape Verde,2 Ghana, 2 Israel, 2 Mali2 and Mexico. 41. At the same meeting, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States joined in sponsoring the revised draft resolution. 42. The Commission was informed that the revised draft resolution contained no programme budget implications. 43. At the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft resolution (see chap. I, resolution 47/1). 28