33.
Welcomes:
(a)
The increased attention given by the Committee on the Rights of the Child to the realization of
the highest attainable standard of health and access to health care, and takes note of the thematic discussion held
at its nineteenth session in 1998 on the rights of children living in a world with human immunodeficiency
virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), as well as the recommendations adopted (CRC/C/80,
para. 243);
(b)
The development of a global strategic framework on young people and HIV/AIDS, based on a
rights approach, initiated by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) working in
partnership with the UNAIDS co-sponsors and in consultation with relevant parts of the United Nations system;
(c)
World Health Assembly resolution WHA 51.22 of 16 May 1998 on the health of young
children and adolescents and steps taken to further increase cooperation between the World Health Organization
and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Committee on the Rights of the
Child, the United Nations Children's Fund and other relevant partners in developing a rights-based approach in
programming and implementing programmes to prevent and combat disease, malnutrition and disability;
(d)
Welcomes the agreed conclusions adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its
forty-third session on women and health in March 1999;
34.
Calls upon all States:
(a)
And relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the World
Health Organization, to pay particular attention to the development of sustainable health systems and social
services to ensure the effective prevention of diseases, malnutrition, disabilities and infant and child mortality,
including through prenatal and postnatal health care, as well as the provision of necessary medical treatment and
health care to all children, taking into consideration the special needs of young children, including prevention of
common infectious diseases, the special needs of adolescents, including reproductive and sexual health and
threats from substance abuse and violence, and the particular needs of children living in poverty, children in
situations of armed conflict and of vulnerable groups;
(b)
And relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the World
Health Organization, to ensure education and training of health professionals in human rights, including the
rights of the child and the human rights of women and girls;
(c)
To adopt all necessary measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and
fundamental freedoms by children affected by disease and malnutrition, including protection from all forms of
discrimination, abuse or neglect, in particular in the access to and provision of health care;
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