E/2008/27 E/CN.6/2008/11 programmes and to provide sustained treatment and care for the mother after pregnancy, including care and support for the family; 28. Encourages the design and implementation of programmes, including awareness-raising programmes, to encourage and enable men, including young men, to adopt safe, non-coercive and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour and to use effective methods to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; 29. Stresses the importance of ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education and youthspecific HIV education, sexual education and services necessary for behavioural change, to enable them to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection and reproductive ill health, in full partnership with young persons, parents, families, educators and health-care providers; 30. 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 by focusing on the role of men and boys in addressing HIV/AIDS; 31. Encourages Governments and all other relevant actors to promote funding, both domestically and externally, and to support and expedite actionoriented research leading to affordable, safe and effective methods controlled by women to prevent HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, including microbicides and vaccines and research on strategies that empower women to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and methods of care, support and treatment for women of various ages, and to promote their involvement in all aspects of such research; 32. Encourages Governments to increase the provision of resources and facilities to women who find themselves having to provide care and/or economic support for those infected with HIV/AIDS or affected by the pandemic and to address the challenges faced by the survivors and caregivers, in particular children and older persons, utilizing funds earmarked for care and support to reduce women’s disproportionate burden of care as well as to provide the balanced sharing of the provisions of care by both men and women; 33. 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 particular women’s organizations, in addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in all its aspects, including promoting a gender perspective, and to promote their full involvement and participation in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS programmes, as well as in creating an enabling environment to combat stigmatization; 34. Also urges Governments to ensure that the dignity, rights and privacy of people living with HIV/AIDS, in particular women and girls, are protected; 35. Urges Governments, the donor community and relevant entities of the United Nations system to prioritize programmes addressing the specific 28 08-29062