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77. Commit to intensify national efforts to create enabling legal, social and policy
frameworks in each national context in order to eliminate stigma, discrimination and
violence related to HIV and promote access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and
support and non-discriminatory access to education, health care, employment and
social services, provide legal protections for people affected by HIV, including
inheritance rights and respect for privacy and confidentiality, and promote and
protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms, with particular attention to all
people vulnerable to and affected by HIV;
78. Commit to review, as appropriate, laws and policies that adversely affect the
successful, effective and equitable delivery of HIV prevention, treatment, care and
support programmes to people living with and affected by HIV and to consider their
review in accordance with relevant national review frameworks and time frames;
79. Encourage Member States to consider identifying and reviewing any remaining
HIV-related restrictions on entry, stay and residence in order to eliminate them;
80. Commit to national HIV and AIDS strategies that promote and protect human
rights, including programmes aimed at eliminating stigma and discrimination against
people living with and affected by HIV, including their families, including by
sensitizing the police and judges, training health-care workers in non-discrimination,
confidentiality and informed consent, supporting national human rights learning
campaigns, legal literacy and legal services, as well as monitoring the impact of the
legal environment on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support;
81. Commit to ensuring that national responses to HIV and AIDS meet the specific
needs of women and girls, including those living with and affected by HIV, across
their lifespan, by strengthening legal, policy, administrative and other measures for
the promotion and protection of women’s full enjoyment of all human rights and the
reduction of their vulnerability to HIV through the elimination of all forms of
discrimination, as well as all types of sexual exploitation of women, girls and boys,
including for commercial reasons, and all forms of violence against women and
girls, including harmful traditional and customary practices, abuse, rape and other
forms of sexual violence, battering and trafficking in women and girls;
82. Commit to strengthen national social and child protection systems and care
and support programmes for children, in particular for the girl child, and adolescents
affected by and vulnerable to HIV, as well as their families and caregivers, including
through the provision of equal opportunities to support the development to their full
potential of orphans and other children affected by and living with HIV, especially
through equal access to education, the creation of safe and non-discriminatory
learning environments, supportive legal systems and protections, including civil
registration systems, and the provision of comprehensive information and support to
children and their families and caregivers, especially age-appropriate HIV
information, to assist children living with HIV as they transition through
adolescence, consistent with their evolving capacities;
83. Commit to promoting laws and policies that ensure the full realization of all
human rights and fundamental freedoms for young people, particularly those living
with HIV and those at higher risk of HIV infection, so as to eliminate the stigma and
discrimination they face;
84. Commit to address, according to national legislation, the vulnerabilities to HIV
experienced by migrant and mobile populations and support their access to HIV
prevention, treatment, care and support;
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