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85. Commit to mitigate the impact of the epidemic on workers, their families, their
dependants, workplaces and economies, including by taking into account all
relevant conventions of the International Labour Organization, as well as the
guidance provided by the relevant International Labour Organization
recommendations, including the Recommendation on HIV and AIDS and the World
of Work, 2010 (No. 200), and call upon employers, trade and labour unions,
employees and volunteers to eliminate stigma and discrimination, protect human
rights and facilitate access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support;
Resources for the AIDS response
86. Commit to working towards closing, by 2015, the global HIV and AIDS
resource gap, currently estimated by the Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS to be 6 billion dollars annually, through greater strategic investment and
continued domestic and international funding to enable countries to access
predictable and sustainable financial resources and through sources of innovative
financing and by ensuring that funding flows through country finance systems,
where appropriate and available, and is aligned with accountable and sustainable
national HIV and AIDS and development strategies that maximize synergies and
deliver sustainable programmes that are evidence-based and implemented with
transparency, accountability and effectiveness;
87. Commit to breaking the upward trajectory of costs through the efficient
utilization of resources, addressing barriers to the legal trade in generics and other
low-cost medicines, improving the efficiency of prevention by targeting
interventions to deliver more efficient, innovative and sustainable programmes for
the HIV and AIDS response, in accordance with national development plans and
priorities, and ensuring that synergies are exploited between the HIV and AIDS
response and the efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals,
including the Millennium Development Goals;
88. Commit, by 2015, through a series of incremental steps and through our shared
responsibility, to reach a significant level of annual global expenditure on HIV and
AIDS, while recognizing that the overall target estimated by the Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS is between 22 billion and 24 billion dollars in
low- and middle-income countries, by increasing national ownership of HIV and
AIDS responses through greater allocations from national resources and traditional
sources of funding, including official development assistance;
89. Strongly urge those developed countries that have pledged to achieve the
target of 0.7 per cent of their gross national product for official development
assistance by 2015, and urge those developed countries that have not yet done so, to
make additional concrete efforts to fulfil their commitments in this regard;
90. Strongly urge African countries that adopted the Abuja Declaration and
Framework for Action for the fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other
Related Infectious Diseases 10 to take concrete measures to meet the target of
allocating at least 15 per cent of their annual budget to the improvement of the
health sector, in accordance with the Abuja Declaration and Framework for Action;
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See Organization of African Unity, document OAU/SPS/ABUJA/3.