A/RES/65/277 55. Commit to increase national ownership of HIV and AIDS responses, while calling upon the United Nations system, donor countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the business sector and international and regional organizations to support Member States in ensuring that nationally driven, credible, costed, evidence-based, inclusive and comprehensive national HIV and AIDS strategic plans are, by 2013, funded and implemented with transparency, accountability and effectiveness in line with national priorities; 56. Commit to encouraging and supporting the active involvement and leadership of young people, including those living with HIV, in the fight against the epidemic at the local, national and global levels, and agree to work with these new leaders to help to develop specific measures to engage young people about HIV, including in communities, families, schools, tertiary institutions, recreation centres and workplaces; 57. Commit to continue engaging people living with and affected by HIV in decisionmaking and planning, implementing and evaluating the response, and to partner with local leaders and civil society, including community-based organizations, to develop and scale up community-led HIV services and to address stigma and discrimination; Prevention: expanding coverage, diversifying approaches and intensifying efforts to end new HIV infections 58. Reaffirm that prevention of HIV must be the cornerstone of national, regional and international responses to the HIV epidemic; 59. Commit to redouble HIV-prevention efforts by taking all measures to implement comprehensive, evidence-based prevention approaches, taking into account local circumstances, ethics and cultural values, including through, but not limited to: (a) Conducting public awareness campaigns and targeted HIV education to raise public awareness about HIV; (b) Harnessing the energy of young people in helping to lead global HIV awareness; (c) Reducing risk-taking behaviour and encouraging responsible sexual behaviour, including abstinence, fidelity and consistent and correct use of condoms; (d) Expanding access to essential commodities, particularly male and female condoms and sterile injecting equipment; (e) Ensuring that all people, particularly young people, have the means to exploit the potential of new modes of connection and communication; (f) Significantly expanding and promoting voluntary and confidential HIV testing and counselling and provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling; (g) Intensifying national testing promotion campaigns for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; (h) Giving consideration, as appropriate, to implementing and expanding risk- and harm-reduction programmes, taking into account the WHO, UNODC, UNAIDS Technical Guide for Countries to Set Targets for Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care for Injecting Drug Users, 7 in accordance with national legislation; _______________ 7 Available from www.who.int/hiv/pub/idu/targetsetting/en/index.html. 9