E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 burden imposed by the HIV/AIDS crisis, that they are more easily infected, that they play a key role in care and that they become more vulnerable to poverty as a result of the HIV/AIDS crisis; “4. Reaffirms the need for Governments, supported by relevant actors, including civil society, to intensify national efforts and international cooperation in the implementation of the commitments contained in the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS3 and the Beijing Platform for Action1 and to work towards effectively reflecting in their national policies and strategies the gender dimension of the pandemic, in line with the timebound goals of the Declaration and the Platform for Action; “5. Also reaffirms the commitment to achieve universal access to reproductive health care by 2015, as set out in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,5 integrating this goal into strategies to attain internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration4 aimed at reducing maternal mortality, improving maternal health, reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and eradicating poverty; “6. Urges Governments to take all necessary measures to empower women and strengthen their economic independence and to protect and promote their full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in order to enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection; “7. Also urges Governments to strengthen initiatives that would increase the capacities of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and health services, including for sexual and reproductive health, that integrate HIV prevention, treatment and care and include voluntary counselling and testing and through prevention education that promotes gender equality within a culturally and gender-sensitive framework; “8. Further urges Governments to expand access to treatment, in a progressive and sustainable manner, including the prevention and treatment of opportunistic diseases and effective use of antiretroviral medication and to promote access to low-cost effective drugs and related pharmaceutical products; “9. Urges Governments to ensure that women and girls have equitable and sustained access to treatment for AIDS and opportunistic infections, appropriate to their age, health and nutritional status, with the full protection of their human rights, including their sexual and reproductive rights, and to monitor access to treatment by age, sex and continuity of care; “10. Calls upon Governments to intensify efforts to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls in relation to HIV/AIDS, including through challenging stereotypes, stigmatization, discriminatory attitudes and gender inequalities, and to encourage the active involvement of men and boys in this regard; __________________ 5 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex. 43