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(c)
country;
Increasing efforts to further reduce maternal mortality throughout the
(d)
substitutes;
Adopting and implementing a national law on marketing of breast-milk
(e)
Ensuring that all segments of the society are informed, have access to
education and are supported in the use of basic knowledge of child health and nutrition,
including the advantages of breastfeeding;
(f)
Ensuring full implementation of World Health Organization (WHO)
standards on registration of infant mortality;
(g)
Providing hospitals with sufficient obstetric supplies and emergency
medicines; and
(h)
regard.
Seeking technical assistance, among others, from UNICEF and WHO in this
HIV/AIDS
53.
While noting the State party’s statement that no cases of children with HIV/AIDS have
been recorded in Turkmenistan, the Committee is concerned that low levels of knowledge among
the general population, especially young people, on the ways in which HIV can be transmitted,
lack of means and insufficient skills for protection from HIV infection, along with prevailing
unsafe sexual behaviour and injecting practices, increase the risk of an HIV epidemic.
Furthermore, the Committee is concerned at information that the skills and capacity to diagnose
HIV/AIDS is limited and that there is an underreporting of HIV/AIDS and other infectious
diseases.
54.
The Committee recommends that the State party, taking into account the
Committee’s general comment No. 3 on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child (2003) and
the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights (E/CN.4/1997/37):
(a)
Provide antiretroviral treatment to HIV-positive women and expand the
coverage of voluntary HIV tests for pregnant women;
(b)
Strengthen its measures to expand facilities and medical training for the
diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS;
(c)
Address the issue of underreporting of communicable and infectious
diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis;
(d)
Strengthen its efforts by conducting campaigns and programmes to raise
awareness about HIV/AIDS among adolescents, particularly among those belonging to
vulnerable and high-risk groups as well as the population at large, so as to reduce
discrimination against children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS;