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WOMEN, THE GIRL CHILD AND HIV AND AIDS
PP1 Reaffirming
the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of its
reviews; the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the
outcome documents of the Twenty-third Special Session of the General Assembly, the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, and the
key actions for its further implementation and outcomes of its reviews, the Convention on the
Rights of the Child, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women; the 2011
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS; the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women,
Peace and Security, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the Sustainable
Development Goals, in particular the resolve of Member States to end the AIDS epidemic by
2030.
PP2 Noting
with deep concern that the global HIV epidemic disproportionately affects women
and girls and acknowledging the progress achieved in the realisation of Goal 6 of the
Millennium Development Goals (MGDs), halting and reversing the spread of HIV where the
global response to HIV has averted millions of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths since
2000, when the MDGs were set;
PP3 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 UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets and acknowledging the specific vulnerabilities of adolescent and
young girls and women due to, inter alia, unequal power relations in society between women
and men, boys and girls;
PP4 Acknowledging
that prevention, treatment, care and support for people living with and
affected by HIV and AIDS are mutually reinforcing elements of an effective response that must
be integrated into a comprehensive multisectoral gender responsive approach to end the AIDS
epidemic;
PP5 Noting with concern
that regulations, policies and practices, including those that limit
legitimate trade of generic medicines, may seriously limit access to affordable HIV treatment
and other pharmaceutical products in low-and middle-income countries, and recognizing that
improvements can be made, inter alia through national legislation, regulatory policy and supply
chain management, and noting that reductions in barriers to affordable products could be
explored in order to expand access to affordable and good quality HIV prevention products,
diagnostics, medicine and treatment commodities for HIV, including opportunistic infections
and co-infections;
PP6 Stressing
that gender equality and the political, civil, social, economic and cultural
empowerment of women and girls as well as the full and equal enjoyment of their human rights
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and fundamental freedoms are fundamental in the eradication of poverty and the achievement
of sustainable development;
PP7 - Also stressing
that the lack of protection and promotion of the human rights of all women
and their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in accordance with the
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the
Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and
insufficient access to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, aggravates
the impact of the epidemic especially amongst women and girls, increasing their vulnerability
and endangering the survival of present and future generations;
PP8 Recognizing
that children and adolescents are more likely to be lost from care and that
those on antiretroviral medication are less likely than adults to reach viral load suppression and
that there are many challenges in diagnosing and treating infants, children, and adolescents;
PP9 Stressing
the value and importance of social protection for the most vulnerable for
achieving universal health coverage (UHC) that comprises universal and equitable access to
quality health services and ensures affordable and quality service delivery to people living with
HIV including women and children and making sure that UHC also promotes HIV/AIDS
responses;
PP10 Recognizing
that over 13.3 million children have lost one or two parents to HIV and AIDS
and that these children have complex needs pertaining to protection, care and support and that
they may be at increased risk of infection as well as at increased risk of violence, including
sexual and gender-based violence;
PP11 Noting with appreciation
the efforts of Member States and the UN system to end all
forms of violence against women and children, in particular the girl-child including the
Secretary General’s Campaign "UNite to end violence against women", and the HeForShe
Campaign;
PP12 Deeply concerned
that all forms of violence against women and girls, discrimination and
harmful practices are key contributing factors to the spread of HIV amongst women and girls;
PP13 Deeply concerned
by the increased vulnerability to HIV infection faced by women and
girls living with disabilities resulting from, inter alia, legal and economic inequalities, sexual and
gender based violence, discrimination, and violations of their rights;
PP14 Noting with concern
that populations destabilized by armed conflict, humanitarian
emergencies, natural disasters, internally displaced persons, refugees and in particular, women
and children especially girls, are at increased risk of HIV infection;
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PP15 Recognizing
that women and girls are more vulnerable to HIV infection, and that they
bear a disproportionate burden of the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, including the care
of and support for those living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, and that this negatively
affects the enjoyment of their human rights including the right to health;
PP16 Recognizing
that access to quality education and information and the retention of girls in
school is a critical element in the prevention of HIV infection amongst women and girls;
PP17 Acknowledging
the leadership of governments, in cooperation with the Joint UN
programme on HIV and AIDS and other UN specialised agencies and the international donor
community and financing mechanisms including of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and
Malaria (GFATM) in increasing domestic and international resources to support programmes
that promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls to address HIV and
AIDS;
PP18 Welcoming
the leadership and commitment shown in all aspects of gender equality and
empowerment of women and girls, including in the HIV and AIDS response by governments,
non-governmental organizations, CSOs and people living with HIV, including through the African
Union Roadmap on Shared Responsibility and Global Solidarity for AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria Response in Africa;
OP1 Calls upon
governments, international partners and civil society to give full attention to
the high levels of new HIV infections amongst young women and adolescent girls and its root
causes, bearing in mind that women and girls are physiologically more vulnerable to HIV,
especially at an earlier age, than men and boys, and that this is increased by discrimination and
all forms of violence against women, girls and adolescents, including sexual exploitation and
harmful practices;
OP2 Calls upon
Member States to intensify efforts to achieve gender equality and the
empowerment of women and girls in all spheres of life, recognizing that structural gender
inequalities, discrimination, violence against women and girls, and harmful masculinities
undermine effective HIV responses and the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms by women and girls;
OP3 Calls upon
all governments to enact and intensify the implementation of laws, policies and
strategies to eliminate all forms of gender based violence, and discrimination against women
and girls in the public and private spheres, and harmful practices such as child, early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and female genital mutilation (FGM), and trafficking in persons, and ensure
the full engagement of men and boys in order to reduce women and girls’ vulnerability to HIV;
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OP4 Calls upon
all governments to intensify efforts to reduce the particularly high levels of HIV
infection among women and girls that epidemiological evidence shows are at higher risk by
reducing barriers to their participation in HIV prevention and care where possible, as well as
removing barriers to their full participation in society, and by addressing practices such as
trafficking in persons that contribute to HIV risk and social marginalization of women and girls;
OP5 Calls upon
all governments to ensure a just and equitable world for women and girls,
including through partnering with men and boys, as an important strategy for achieving gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls;
OP6 Calls upon
all governments to promote universal health coverage, as part of a
comprehensive social protection package, which implies that all people have equal access,
without discrimination of any kind, to nationally determined sets of quality promotive,
preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative basic health services needed and essential,
safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines, especially through the promotion of primary
health care, while ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the users to financial
hardship, with a specific emphasis on women, children and the poor, vulnerable and
marginalized segments of the population;
OP7 Urges
Member States to adopt and implement measures that promote access to, the
retention and completion of education by girls including catch-up and literacy education for
those who did not receive formal education, special initiatives for keeping girls in school
through post-primary education, including those who are already married or pregnant, or
caring for people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, and adapt social protection measures as
protective strategies to reducing new HIV infections amongst young women and girls;
OP8 Calls on
Member States to address gender based HIV related stigma and discrimination
against and amongst women and girls, so as to ensure the dignity, rights and privacy of women
and girls living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, including in education, training and informal
education and the workplace;
OP9 Pledge to
eliminate gender inequalities and gender-based abuse and violence, increase the
capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from the risk of HIV infection,
principally through the provision of health care and services, including, inter alia, sexual and
reproductive health, as well as full access to comprehensive information and education, ensure
that women can exercise their right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on,
matters related to their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of
coercion, discrimination and violence, in order to increase their ability to protect themselves
from HIV infection, and take all necessary measures to create an enabling environment for the
empowerment of women and to strengthen their economic independence, and, in this context,
reiterate the importance of the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality;
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OP10 Further calls
on Member States to recognize women’s contribution to the economy and
their active participation in caring for people living with HIV and AIDS, and recognize,
redistribute and value women’s unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public
services, infrastructure, the promotion of equal sharing of responsibilities with men and boys,
and social protection targeted at women and girls who are vulnerable;
OP11 Calls upon
governments to accelerate efforts to scale up scientifically accurate age
appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent
girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving
capacities, with information on sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention; gender
equality and women's empowerment; human rights; physical, psychological and pubertal
development and power in relationships between
women and men
, to enable them to build self-
esteem, informed decision making, communication and risk reduction skills and develop
respectful relationships, ,in full partnership with young persons, parents, legal guardians, care
givers, educators and health-care providers, in order to enable them to protect themselves
from HIV infection;
OP12 Calls on
governments to take concrete long term measures to achieve universal access to
comprehensive HIV prevention, programmes, treatment, care and support to all women and
girls and to remove all barriers to achieve universal health coverage and improve access to
integrated sexual reproductive health care services, information, voluntary counseling and
testing and commodities while building the capacity of adolescent girls and boys, young women
and men to protect themselves from HIV infection and enabling their use of available
commodities including female and male condoms, Post Exposure Prophylaxis and Pre-Exposure
Prophylaxis, while seeking to avoid risk-taking behaviour and encouraging responsible sexual
behaviour;
OP13 Commits to
remove before 2030, obstacles that limit the capacity of low and middle-
income countries to provide affordable and effective HIV prevention and treatment products,
diagnostics, medicines and commodities and other pharmaceutical products, as well as
treatment for opportunistic infections and co-infections, and to reduce costs associated with
life-long chronic care, including by amending national laws and regulations, so as to optimize:
(a) The use, to the full, of existing flexibilities under the Agreement on Trade- Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights specifically geared to promoting access to and
trade in medicines, and, while recognizing the importance of the intellectual property
rights regime in contributing to a more effective AIDS response, ensure that intellectual
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property rights provisions in trade agreements do not undermine these existing
flexibilities, as confirmed in the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public
Health, and call for early acceptance of the amendment to article 31 of the TRIPS
Agreement adopted by the General Council of the World Trade Organization in its
decision of 6 December 2005;
(b) Addressing barriers, regulations, policies and practices that prevent access to
affordable HIV treatment by promoting generic competition in order to help to reduce
costs associated with life-long chronic care and by encouraging all States to apply
measures and procedures for enforcing intellectual property rights in such a manner as
to avoid creating barriers to the legitimate trade in medicines, and to provide for
safeguards against the abuse of such measures and procedures;
(c) Encouraging the voluntary use, where appropriate, of new mechanisms such as
partnerships, tiered pricing, open-source sharing of patents and patent pools benefiting
all developing countries, including through entities such as the Medicines Patent Pool,
to help to reduce treatment costs and encourage development of new HIV treatment
formulations, including HIV medicines and point-of-care diagnostics, in particular for
children;
OP14 Calls on
governments and stakeholders to uphold commitments to eliminate mother-to-
child transmission and keep mothers alive including through integrating HIV prevention,
treatment, care and support, including confidential voluntary counseling and testing and
elimination of mother-to-child/vertical transmission, with other primary health-care services
especially sexual and reproductive health-care services and through means to prevent new
infections among women and adolescent girls of reproductive age and the provision of sexual
and reproductive health-care services and life-long anti-retrovirals for women and girls living
with HIV;
OP15 Calls upon
governments and stakeholders to intensify combination prevention initiatives
for women and girls for the prevention of new infections and reverse the spread of HIV and
maternal mortality;
OP16 Urges
governments and stakeholders to address the increased vulnerability to HIV faced
by older women, and women and girls with disabilities, ensuring their equal access to
prevention, treatment, care and support, as an integral part of their HIV and AIDS response;
OP17 Stresses
the importance of governments, the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS and other United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes developing
and implementing strategies to improve infant HIV diagnosis, including through access to
diagnostics at point of care, significantly increasing and improving access to treatment for
children and adolescents living with HIV, including access to prophylaxis and treatments for
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opportunistic infections and promoting a smooth transition from pediatric to adult treatment
and related support and services, while taking into account the need to put in place
programmes focused on delivering services to HIV-negative children born to women living with
HIV, as they are still at high risk of morbidity and mortality and to develop actions to limit post
delivery transmissions through breast-feeding through the provision of information and
education;
OP18 Calls upon
governments and stakeholders to prioritize gender equality and
empowerment of all women and girls in all policies and programmes related to populations
destabilized by armed conflict including refugees, internally displaced persons and in particular,
women and children who are at increased risk of HIV infection;
OP19 Urges
governments to increase political commitment and domestic financing to achieve
gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls through national HIV and AIDS
responses targeting women and girls, that respect, promote and protect human rights and
fundamental freedoms for women and girls, including in the context of the HIV epidemic and
promote equal economic opportunities and decent work for women and girls;
OP20 Further urges
governments to promote active and meaningful participation, contribution
and leadership of women and girls living with HIV, civil society actors, private sector, youth and
young men and women’s organisations, in addressing the problem of HIV and AIDS in all its
aspects, including promoting a gender responsive approach to the national response;
OP21 Requests
governments, the private sector, the international donor community, funds and
programmes of the UN agencies to intensify financial and technical support to national efforts
to end AIDS and achieve gender equality, and the empowerment of women and girls, focused
on women and girls affected by the HIV and AIDS epidemic and to also intensify financial and
technical support to mainstreaming gender and human rights perspectives in policies, planning,
programmes, monitoring and evaluation;
OP22 Requests
governments to make available comprehensive disaggregated data on age, sex
and other characteristics relevant in national context to inform targeted responses on gender
dimensions of HIV and AIDS;
OP23 Stresses
the importance of building up national competence and capacity to provide an
assessment of the drivers and impact of the epidemic, which should be used in HIV and AIDS
prevention, treatment, care and support and for mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS;
OP24 Encourages
the international community and research institutions to support action-
oriented research on gender and HIV and AIDS including on female controlled prevention
commodities;
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OP25 Requests
the United Nations Secretary-General to submit a progress report on the
implementation of the present resolution to the Sixty-second Session of the Commission on the
Status of Women.
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