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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 1999, para. 6
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- Also recognizing that women and, in particular, young girls, are physiologically and biologically more vulnerable than men to sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, and yet receive minimal health care and support when infected,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 27
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- Encourages the design and implementation of 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/AIDS;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- Encourages the design and implementation of 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/AIDS;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 20
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- Also urges governments to promote the active and meaningful participation, contribution and leadership of women and girls living with HIV, civil society actors, the private sector, youth and young men and women's organizations, in addressing the problem of HIV and AIDS in all its aspects, including promoting a gender-responsive approach to the national response;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2016, para. 3
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- Recognizing the need to intensify efforts to end the AIDS epidemic through fast-tracking the HIV response across the prevention and treatment continuum, including in the context of the 90-90-90 targets of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and acknowledging the specific vulnerabilities of adolescent and young girls and women owing to, inter alia, unequal power relations in society between women and men, boys and girls,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2012, para. 27
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- Urges Member States, the international community, civil society, including women's and youth organizations, the private sector and other relevant actors to strengthen partnerships and international cooperation to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2012
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2011, para. 30
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity through the empowerment of women 2010, para. 14
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- Urges Member States, the international community, civil society, including women's and youth organizations, and the private sector to strengthen partnerships and international cooperation to eliminate preventable maternal mortality and morbidity;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2010, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV education, sex 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Youth
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2010, para. 30
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Forced marriage of the girl child 2007, para. 1f
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- [Urges States:] (f) 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 are needed to prevent HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections and to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including sexual and reproductive health;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 28
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education, youth-specific HIV education and sexual education, and to services necessary for behavioural change 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2006, para. 30
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education, and youth-specific HIV education, sexual education and services necessary for behavioural change, 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Youth
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2005, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- 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 addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in all its aspects, including promoting a gender perspective, and also to promote their full involvement and participation in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS programmes;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2005, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Recognizes the importance of young men and women having access to the information, education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV education, and services necessary to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection, with the full participation of young persons, parents, families, educators and health-care providers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2005
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2004, para. 15
- Paragraph text
- 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 addressing the problem of HIV/AIDS in all its aspects, including promoting a gender perspective and also to promote their full involvement and participation in the design, planning, implementation and evaluation of HIV/AIDS programmes;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2004, para. 13
- Paragraph text
- Recognizes the importance of young men and women having access to information, education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV education, and services necessary to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection, in full participation with young persons, parents, families, educators and health-care providers;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2004
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2000, para. 6
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- Calls upon the international community, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their support of national efforts against HIV/AIDS, particularly in favour of women and young girls, in the worst-hit regions of Africa and where the epidemic is severely setting back national development gains;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2000
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2000, para. 2
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- Noting with great concern that the proportion of women becoming infected with HIV is growing in every region, that in sub-Saharan Africa 55 per cent of those living with HIV are women and that, in the younger age brackets (15-24 years), girls are at higher risk of HIV infection and that more girls than boys are now infected and, in this context, welcoming the newly launched international partnership against AIDS in Africa,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2000
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 1999, para. 6
- Paragraph text
- Calls upon the international community, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to intensify their support of national efforts against HIV/AIDS, particularly in favour of women and young girls, in the worst-hit regions of Africa and where the epidemic is severely setting back national development gains;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 1999, para. 5
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- Stresses that every effort should be made by Governments, relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, individually and collectively, to place combating HIV/AIDS as a priority on the development agenda and to implement effective prevention strategies and programmes, especially for the most vulnerable populations, including women and young girls;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 1999
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 10
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- Deeply concerned that there are women, including young women, living with HIV who would like to space or limit pregnancies but are currently not using an effective method of contraception owing to limited access to voluntary family planning services and a broad range of contraceptive methods,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 8
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- Concerned also that the global HIV epidemic disproportionately affects women and girls and reinforces gender inequalities, that the majority of new HIV infections in young people aged 15 to 19 years occur among girls, and also concerned that women and girls bear the disproportionate burden of caring for and supporting people living with and affected by HIV, and that they become more vulnerable to poverty as a result of the epidemic,
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2014, para. 34
- Paragraph text
- Expresses concern that the majority of new HIV infections in women occur in marriage or long-term relationships, and 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2011, para. 31
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV education, sex education and services necessary for behavioural change, so as 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Youth
- Year
- 2011
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2009, para. 30
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education and youth-specific 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Youth
- Year
- 2009
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2008, para. 29
- Paragraph text
- Stresses the importance of ensuring that young men and women have access to information and education, including peer education and youth- specific 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Men
- Youth
- Year
- 2008
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS 2007, para. 32
- Paragraph text
- 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 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;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Document type
- Resolution
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2007
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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