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(i) Promoting medical male circumcision where HIV prevalence is high and
male circumcision rates are low;
(j) Sensitizing and encouraging the active engagement of men and boys in
promoting gender equality;
(k)
Facilitating access to sexual and reproductive health-care services;
(l) Ensuring that women of childbearing age have access to HIV-preventionrelated services and that pregnant women have access to antenatal care, information,
counselling and other HIV services, and increasing the availability of and access to
effective treatment for women living with HIV and infants;
(m) Strengthening evidence-based health sector prevention interventions,
including in rural and hard-to-reach places;
(n) Deploying new biomedical interventions as soon as they are validated,
including female-initiated prevention methods such as microbicides, HIV treatment
prophylaxis, earlier treatment as prevention and an HIV vaccine;
60. Commit to ensure that financial resources for prevention are targeted to
evidence-based prevention measures that reflect the specific nature of each
country’s epidemic by focusing on geographic locations, social networks and
populations vulnerable to HIV infection, according to the extent to which they
account for new infections in each setting, in order to ensure that resources for HIV
prevention are spent as cost-effectively as possible and to ensure that particular
attention is paid to women and girls, young people, orphans and vulnerable children,
migrants and people affected by humanitarian emergencies, prisoners, indigenous
people and people with disabilities, depending on local circumstances;
61. Commit to ensure that national prevention strategies comprehensively target
populations at higher risk and that systems of data collection and analysis about
these populations are strengthened, and to take measures to ensure that HIV
services, including voluntary and confidential HIV testing and counselling, are
accessible to these populations so that they are encouraged to access HIV
prevention, treatment, care and support;
62. Commit to working towards reducing sexual transmission of HIV by
50 per cent by 2015;
63. Commit to working towards reducing transmission of HIV among people who
inject drugs by 50 per cent by 2015;
64. Commit to working towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of
HIV and substantially reducing AIDS-related maternal deaths by 2015;
Treatment, care and support: eliminating AIDS-related illness and death
65. Pledge to intensify efforts that will help to increase the life expectancy and
quality of life of all people living with HIV;
66. Commit to accelerate efforts to achieve the goal of universal access to
antiretroviral treatment for those eligible based on World Health Organization HIV
treatment guidelines that indicate timely initiation of quality assured treatment for
its maximum benefit, with the target of working towards having 15 million people
living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment by 2015;
67. Commit to support the reduction of unit costs and improve HIV treatment
delivery, through, inter alia, provision of good quality, affordable, effective, less
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