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34. Expresses its concern at the overall expansion and feminization of the
HIV/AIDS pandemic and the fact that women and girls bear a disproportionate share
of the burden imposed by HIV/AIDS, that they are more easily infected, that they
play a key role in care and that they have become more vulnerable to violence,
stigmatization and discrimination, poverty and marginalization from their families
and communities as a result of HIV/AIDS, and calls upon Governments and the
international community to intensify efforts towards achieving the goal of universal
access to comprehensive HIV prevention programmes, treatment, care and support
by 2010 and of having halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015;
35. Reaffirms the commitment to achieve universal access to reproductive
health by 2015, as set out at the International Conference on Population and Development, 14
by integrating this goal into strategies to attain the internationally agreed
development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration5 aimed at reducing maternal mortality, improving maternal health,
reducing child mortality, promoting gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and
eradicating poverty;
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36. Recognizes that there is a need for all donors to maintain and deliver on
their existing bilateral and multilateral official development assistance commitments
and targets, and that the full implementation of these commitments will substantially
boost resources available to push forward the international development agenda;
37. Expresses deep concern that maternal health remains one area
constrained by some of the largest health inequities in the world, and over the
uneven progress in improving child and maternal health, and in this context calls
upon States to renew their commitment to preventing and eliminating child and
maternal mortality and morbidity;
38. Encourages the international community, the United Nations system, the
private sector and civil society to continue to provide the necessary financial
resources to assist national Governments in their efforts to meet the development
targets and benchmarks agreed upon at the World Summit for Social Development,
the Fourth World Conference on Women, the International Conference on
Population and Development, the Millennium Summit, the International Conference
on Financing for Development, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the
Second World Assembly on Ageing, the twenty-third and twenty-fourth special
sessions of the General Assembly and other relevant United Nations conferences
and summits;
39. Urges multilateral donors, and invites international financial institutions,
within their respective mandates, and regional development banks to review and
implement policies that support national efforts to ensure that a higher proportion of
resources reaches women, in particular in rural and remote areas;
40. Stresses the importance of collecting and exchanging all relevant
information needed on the role of women in development, including data on
international migration, as well as the need to develop statistics disaggregated by
age and sex, and in that regard encourages developed countries and relevant entities
of the United Nations to provide support and assistance to developing countries,
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See Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September
1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18).
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