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(e) To take measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
including the provision of essential drugs, appropriate antenatal, delivery and postpartum care, voluntary and confidential counselling and testing services for
pregnant women and their partners and support for mothers, such as counselling on
infant feeding options and access to treatment, including antiretroviral treatment;
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Also calls upon States:
(a) To ensure full and equal access for children to voluntary, free and
confidential counselling, testing and care, including affordable and effective
medication for the treatment of HIV and AIDS and associated opportunistic
infections, recognizing the need for youth-friendly services, and urges States to
work with the pharmaceutical industry and other stakeholders to ensure the
development and universal availability of child-suitable medication and treatments;
(b) To strengthen partnerships and international cooperation at the national,
regional and international levels in order to offer infected and affected children
medicines and related technology which are affordable, easy to use and readily
available, in supporting developing countries that may not have the financial or
human resources capacity to mount an effective response to the HIV/AIDS
pandemic;
(c) To integrate all aspects of HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and
support into all health-care programmes and services;
40. Further calls upon States to take effective measures to eliminate
stigmatization and discrimination on the basis of the HIV or AIDS status, actual or
presumed, of the child or parent and to ensure that HIV or AIDS status does not
stand in the way of the enjoyment by the child of all human rights;
41. Calls upon States to make suitable provision for children affected by
HIV/AIDS who can no longer live with their parents to retain links with their wider
family and community, urges all States to implement the United Nations Framework
for the Protection, Care and Support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Living in
a World with HIV and AIDS and its key strategies, inter alia, by adopting and
implementing, as an integral part of their comprehensive national planning and
budgeting processes, national action plans for the protection and care of orphans and
vulnerable children, and requests donors, the United Nations system and civil
society to support their efforts;
42.
Urges donors:
(a) To ensure, by 2007, a complete and successful replenishment of the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as well as the HIV/AIDS
component of the work programmes of the agencies and programmes of the United
Nations system engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and notes that a major part
of the international HIV and AIDS financing gap relates to children orphaned or
made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS;
(b) To improve the effectiveness of their programmes through better
alignment and elimination of duplication, and calls upon donors and the United
Nations system to take forward the recommendations of the Global Task Team on
Improving AIDS Coordination among Multilateral Institutions and International
Donors;
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