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including by providing appropriate counselling and psychosocial support,
ensuring their enrolment in school and equal access to shelter, nutrition, health
and social services and taking effective measures to eliminate stigmatization,
discrimination, violence, exploitation and abuse on the basis of HIV or AIDS
status;
(e) Identify and address the needs of girls heading households,
including in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, for, inter alia, protection,
access to financial resources, access to health care and support services,
including affordable HIV/AIDS treatment, and for opportunities to continue
their education, with particular attention to orphans and vulnerable children,
and increase men’s responsibility for home-based care in order to address the
disproportionate burden borne by women and girls in caring for the chronically
ill;
(f) Increase global efforts to overcome any legal, regulatory, trade and
other barriers that block access to prevention, treatment, care and support, and
allocate adequate resources;
(g) Promote initiatives aimed at reducing the prices of antiretroviral
drugs, especially second-line drugs, available to the girl child, including
bilateral and private sector initiatives, as well as initiatives on a voluntary
basis by groups of States, based on innovative financing mechanisms that
contribute to the mobilization of resources for social development, including
those that aim to provide further access to drugs at affordable prices to
developing countries on a sustainable and predictable basis, and in this regard,
take note of the International Drug Purchase Facility;
14.6. Child labour
(a) Ensure that the applicable ILO requirements for the employment of
girls and boys are respected and effectively enforced, and ensure also that girls
who are employed have equal access to decent work, equal payment and
remuneration and are protected from economic exploitation, discrimination,
sexual harassment, violence and abuse in the workplace, are aware of their
rights, and have access to formal and non-formal education, skills
development, and vocational training, and develop gender-sensitive measures,
including national action plans where appropriate, to eliminate the worst forms
of child labour, including commercial sexual exploitation, slave-like practices,
forced and bonded labour, trafficking, and hazardous forms of child labour;
(b) Raise government and public awareness as to the nature and scope
of the special needs of girls, including migrant girls, employed as domestic
workers and of those performing excessive domestic chores in their own
households, and develop measures to prevent their labour and economic
exploitation and sexual abuse, and ensure that they have access to education
and vocational training, health services, food, shelter and recreation;
14.7. Armed conflict
(a) Take special measures for the protection of girls affected by armed
conflict and by post-conflict situations and, in particular, protect them from
sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence,
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