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persons affected by HIV/AIDS and other health issues, in particular orphaned and
vulnerable children and older persons;
(e) Ensuring the full implementation of our obligations under the
International Health Regulations adopted by the fifty-eighth World Health Assembly
in May 2005, 21 including the need to support the Global Outbreak Alert and
Response Network of the World Health Organization;
(f) Working actively to implement the “Three Ones” principles in all
countries, including by ensuring that multiple institutions and international partners
all work under one agreed HIV/AIDS framework that provides the basis for
coordinating the work of all partners, with one national AIDS coordinating authority
having a broad-based multisectoral mandate, and under one agreed country-level
monitoring and evaluation system. We welcome and support the important
recommendations of the Global Task Team on Improving AIDS Coordination among
Multilateral Institutions and International Donors;
(g) Achieving universal access to reproductive health by 2015, as set out at
the International Conference on Population and Development, integrating this goal
in strategies to attain the internationally agreed development goals, including those
contained in the Millennium Declaration, aimed at reducing maternal mortality,
improving maternal health, reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality,
combating HIV/AIDS and eradicating poverty;
(h) Promoting long-term funding, including public-private partnerships
where appropriate, for academic and industrial research as well as for the
development of new vaccines and microbicides, diagnostic kits, drugs and
treatments to address major pandemics, tropical diseases and other diseases, such as
avian flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome, and taking forward work on market
incentives, where appropriate through such mechanisms as advance purchase
commitments;
(i) Stressing the need to urgently address malaria and tuberculosis, in
particular in the most affected countries, and welcoming the scaling up, in this
regard, of bilateral and multilateral initiatives.
Gender equality and empowerment of women
58. We remain convinced that progress for women is progress for all. We reaffirm
that the full and effective implementation of the goals and objectives of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action 22 and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly is an essential contribution to achieving the
internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the
Millennium Declaration, and we resolve to promote gender equality and eliminate
pervasive gender discrimination by:
(a) Eliminating gender inequalities in primary and secondary education by
the earliest possible date and at all educational levels by 2015;
(b) Guaranteeing the free and equal right of women to own and inherit
property and ensuring secure tenure of property and housing by women;
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World Health Assembly resolution 58.3.
Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annexes I and II.
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