A/RES/58/236 (h) Addressing the human resource crisis affecting the effective implementation of comprehensive national HIV/AIDS programmes, including supporting the development of monitoring and evaluation capacities and working at the national and international levels to generate flexible solutions; (i) Mobilizing financial resources and providing the support necessary to ensure that they are targeted effectively and absorbed quickly and deliver equitable and sustainable coverage of services, particularly to those most in need; Welcomes with appreciation the Declaration on the Agreement on Trade6. Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health, adopted on 14 November 2001 at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in Doha, 5 and the decision dated 30 August 2003 of the General Council of the World Trade Organization on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Declaration; 6 7. Welcomes the commitment by the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS to work with the international community to support developing countries in achieving the target of providing antiretroviral medicines to 3 million people infected with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2005, the “3 by 5” target, recalling Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/29 of 22 April 2003 entitled “Access to medication in the context of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria”;3 8. Urges the mobilization of additional resources from national, bilateral, multilateral and private sources, including but not limited to additional support to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in order to address the growing need; Also urges the provision of additional financial resources to the United 9. Nations system, especially the Joint Programme’s secretariat and Co-sponsors, in order that they may intensify their support for national responses to HIV/AIDS; 10. Emphasizes that, with the increasing number of HIV/AIDS initiatives at the global, regional and national levels, there is a need for close coordination at all levels, including under government leadership at the national level to ensure a harmonized approach and to increase the effectiveness of the response; 11. Encourages the private sector to become fully engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS, including by adopting relevant workplace non-discrimination policies; 12. Encourages the private sector and the pharmaceutical industry to contribute to the fight against AIDS by, inter alia, continuing to provide key AIDS pharmaceuticals that meet the standards of the World Health Organization, at the lowest possible prices; 13. Recognizes the importance of young men and women having access to information, education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV education, and services necessary to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection, in full partnership with young persons, parents, families, educators and health-care providers; _______________ 5 6 WT/MIN(01)/DEC/2. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org. WT/L/540. Available from http://docsonline.wto.org. 5