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23. Requests the Secretary-General, as Chairman of the United Nations
System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, to ensure that all organizations
and bodies of the United Nations system, individually and collectively, in particular
the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Population
Fund, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the World Health
Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Labour
Organization, take into account the rights and the particular needs of the girl child in
country programmes of cooperation in accordance with national priorities, including
through the United Nations Development Assistance Framework;
24. Requests all human rights treaty bodies and the human rights
mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, including the special procedures, to
adopt regularly and systematically a gender perspective in the implementation of
their mandates and to include in their reports information on the qualitative analysis
of violations of the human rights of women and girls, and encourages the
strengthening of cooperation and coordination in that regard;
25. Requests States to ensure that, in all policies and programmes designed
to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support,
particular attention and support is given to the girl child at risk, infected with and
affected by HIV/AIDS, including pregnant girls and young and adolescent mothers,
as part of the global effort to scale up significantly towards achieving the goal of
universal access to comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010;
26. Invites States to 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 taken by groups of States, including those 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 takes
note of the International Drug Purchase Facility, UNITAID;
27. Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the
goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe
and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active
and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV/AIDS and other
communicable diseases;
28. Urges States and the international community to increase resources at all
levels, particularly in the education and health sectors, to enable young people,
especially girls, to gain the knowledge, attitudes and skills that they need to prevent
HIV/AIDS and early pregnancy and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health;
29. Urges States, the international community, the relevant United Nations
entities, civil society and international financial institutions to continue to actively
support, through the allocation of increased financial resources, targeted innovative
programmes that address ending female genital mutilation and developing and
providing education programmes and sensitization workshops on the dire
consequences of this harmful practice for the health of the girl and to provide for
those who perform the harmful procedure training programmes so that they may
adopt an alternative profession;
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