A/RES/57/190
6.
Calls upon States to take all necessary measures to ensure that the best
interest of the child is the primary consideration in adoptions of children and to take
all necessary measures to prevent and combat illegal adoptions and adoptions which
do not follow the normal procedures;
7.
Also calls upon States to take all necessary measures to address the
problem of children growing up without parents, in particular orphaned children and
children who are victims of family and social violence, neglect and abuse;
8.
Urges States to address cases of international kidnapping of children by
one of the parents;
Health
9.
Calls upon all States and relevant organizations and bodies of the United
Nations system, in particular the World Health Organization and the United Nations
Children’s Fund, to pay particular attention to the development of sustainable health
systems and social services to ensure the effective prevention of disease,
malnutrition, disability and infant and child mortality, including through prenatal
and post-natal 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 and girls, including prevention of common infectious diseases, the special
needs of adolescents, including those relating to 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 children in other
vulnerable groups, and to strengthen ways of empowering families and
communities;
10. Calls upon all States 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;
11. Welcomes the attention given by the Committee on the Rights of the
Child to the realization of the highest attainable standards of health and access to
health care and to the rights of children affected by the human immunodeficiency
virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS);
12. Urges States to give particular emphasis to the prevention of HIV
infection in young children and strengthen efforts to prevent adolescents and women
from becoming HIV-infected, inter alia, by including HIV/AIDS prevention in
educational curricula and educational programmes consistent with the epidemiology
of the diseases in each State, and by supporting wide-scale voluntary HIV testing
and counselling programmes for pregnant women, together with services for HIVinfected pregnant women to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus from infected
pregnant women to their children;
13. Urges all States to take all necessary measures to protect children
infected or affected by HIV/AIDS from all forms of discrimination, stigma, abuse
and neglect, in particular in the access to and provision of health, education and
social services, with a view to the realization of their rights;
14. 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 aimed
at providing assistance to children infected or affected by the epidemic, including
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