E/2001/27 E/CN.6/2001/14 to delay sexual initiation and, in this context, urges that greater attention be given to the education of men and boys about their roles and their responsibilities in preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, to their partners; “17. Requests the Joint United Nations Programmes on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (UNAIDS) and its co-sponsors, bilateral and multilateral donors and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, in their efforts to prevent HIV infection, to give urgent and priority attention to the situation of women and girls in Africa; “18. Invites the relevant entities of the United Nations system, including agencies, funds and programmes, to mainstream gender policies and programmes integrating HIV/AIDS activities; “19. Takes note with appreciation of section I on women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS of the report of the Secretary-General on thematic issues before the Commission on the Status of Women, and invites the SecretaryGeneral to report to the Commission at its forty-sixth session on the implementation of the present resolution.” 43. At the 16th meeting, on 17 March, following statements by the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Republic of Tanzania (on behalf of the Southern African Development Community and the sponsors of draft resolution E/CN.6/2001/L.4), the Commission agreed to defer consideration of the draft resolution to its resumed session. 44. At the 18th meeting, on 11 May, the sponsors of draft resolution E/CN.6/2001/L.4 withdrew their text in the light of the adoption of the draft agreed conclusions on women, the girl child and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) under agenda item 4 (a) (see chap. III, sect. A). Discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan 45. At the 10th meeting, on 12 March, the representative of the United States of America, on behalf of Argentina, Chile, Germany, Guatemala,1 Hungary,1 Iceland,1 Israel,1 Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway,1 Portugal,1 Turkey, Switzerland,1 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, introduced a draft resolution entitled “Discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan” (E/CN.6/2001/L.5), which read as follows: “The Economic and Social Council, “ Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the optional protocols on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Further actions and initiatives to implement the 39