E/2006/27 E/CN.6/2006/15 “11. Encourages the continued collaboration among the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the World Health Organization and other United Nations agencies, as well as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international organizations, to address and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, in particular in the context of emergency situations and as part of humanitarian efforts, and also encourages the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in their work; “12. Further encourages the ongoing work by the United Nations system in providing widespread information on the gender dimension of the pandemic, including through the collection of sex-disaggregated data, and in raising awareness about the critical intersection between gender inequality and HIV/AIDS; “13. Requests Member States to work in partnership with the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, convened by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and partners, to ensure that national AIDS programmes better respond to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls; “14. Urges Governments to rapidly scale up access to treatment programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, to encourage men to participate with women in programmes designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission and to ensure that women who participate in these programmes are guaranteed sustained treatment and care after pregnancy; “15. Encourages the design and implementation of programmes to enable men, including young men, to adopt safe and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour and to use effective methods to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS; “16. Recognizes the importance of young men and women having access to the 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, with the full participation of young persons, parents, families, educators and health-care providers; “17. Calls for enhanced efforts by all relevant actors to include a gender perspective in the development of HIV/AIDS programmes and policies and in the training of personnel involved in implementing such programmes, including through focusing on the role of men and boys in addressing HIV/AIDS; “18. Urges Governments to continue to promote the participation and the significant contribution of people living with HIV/AIDS, young people and civil-society actors in addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in all its aspects, including promoting a gender perspective, and also to promote their full involvement and participation in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS programmes; “19. Welcomes the financial contributions made to date to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, urges further contributions to sustain the Fund, and calls upon all countries to encourage the private sector to contribute to the Fund; 44