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(f) Augment HIV/AIDS programmes by providing educational materials in
indigenous languages and by using specially trained indigenous HIV/AIDS health
workers to conduct outreach services and home care to indigenous communities,
including voluntary testing for HIV/AIDS;
(g) Ensure that indigenous peoples, especially women, have access to all
information relating to their medical treatment and to secure their prior informed
consent to medical treatment;
(h) Provide appropriate health services and protection services, including
safe houses, to displaced refugee and migrant women and women and girl children
victimized by trafficking for prostitution;
(i) Implement the recommendations of the international consultation on
health of indigenous peoples, held in Geneva at WHO in 1999, with special
emphasis on the recommendations concerning the health of women and girls and the
role of women in health care, indigenous knowledge and service provisions;
(j) Develop, in conjunction with indigenous women health providers,
programmes to inform and sensitize indigenous women and men about cultural
practices which have negative impacts on health, including female genital
mutilation, child marriages and violence against women and the girl child in the
domestic context, in order to encourage them to take precautions and safeguard the
health and well being of the indigenous family;
(k) Ensure that the treatment of diseases is balanced by the promotion of
health through the support of physical activity, sports and physical education in
order to address escalating health concerns through prevention.
Other specific issues
90. The Forum urges WHO to attend its sessions, and encourages WHO to submit
a report to it at its fourth session, responding to recommendations made by the
Forum at its first to third sessions. The Forum regrets that WHO was unable to
respond to its recommendations made at its second session, in particular those
contained in chapter I, section B, paragraphs 16, 63-64, 68, 74, 79 and 82.
91. The Forum recommends that the Special Rapporteur on the right to health
examine the disparity of health standards for indigenous peoples in developed
countries in the light of the fact that United Nations agencies and specialized
entities, including WHO, do not undertake health programmes in developed
countries.
92. The Forum recommends that the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner on Human Rights, in conjunction with the Forum, convene an
international workshop, with the participation of United Nations agencies and
indigenous experts, on indigenous peoples and the human right to health and
culturally appropriate health care.
93. The Forum requests the United Nations Development Group, which includes
WHO, to make a report on how it is addressing the Millennium Development Goals,
with particular focus on indigenous peoples. The report should identify obstacles
and constraints at the state, regional, and global levels, and should make
recommendations to address these obstacles. The report should be presented to the
Forum at its fourth session.
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