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60.
The Committee recommends that the State party deal with child nutrition as a
national priority through, inter alia:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
Establishing a time-bound plan of action to reduce chronic malnutrition;
Allocating adequate human and financial resources;
Coordinating the activities of relevant stakeholders including government
entities and line ministries and civil society;
Raising awareness of parents and caregivers of healthy nutrition;
Establishing a nutrition surveillance system and ensuring periodical
screening of infants and school children and adolescents;
Targeting as a priority poor and rural areas;
Evaluating the effectiveness of existing strategies.
Standard of living
61.
The Committee is concerned that 70 per cent of the children in the State party live in
poverty, of which 45 per cent live in extreme poverty. The Committee is also concerned at the
extremely low level of sanitation coverage in the State party, the high discrepancy between urban
and rural areas and that the National Plan of Basic Sanitation remains inoperative. The
Committee is further concerned at the lack of social housing and the negative impact of forced
evictions on children, especially of indigenous and rural (campesino) families, and reiterates the
concern stated by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2008
(E/C.12/BOL/CO/2, para. 14(h)).
62.
The Committee recommends that the State party transform its social sector
initiatives such as cash transfers into a comprehensive social protection system
guaranteeing the children in the State party an adequate standard of living. The
Committee further recommends that the State party expand the capacity of the
departmental and municipal services to implement integrated water, sanitation and
hygiene programmes for isolated rural communities. The Committee also recommends the
application and extension of the Programme for Social and Supportive Living as well as an
integrated policy of social housing, and to consider the situation of families with children
when decisions on evictions are prepared.
HIV/AIDS
63.
While welcoming the draft law on HIV/AIDS of 2007, the Committee is concerned that
HIV/AIDS is becoming a prevalent problem in Bolivia.
64.
The Committee recommends, with reference to its general comment No. 3 (2003) on
HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child, that the State party strengthen its efforts to combat
HIV/AIDS, including through ensuring availability of contraceptives throughout the
country and through awareness-raising campaigns.