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strengthening national efforts at HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support
and strengthening efforts to eliminate the mother-to-child transmission of HIV;
(d) Building new strategic partnerships to strengthen and leverage the
linkages between HIV and other health- and development-related initiatives,
expanding, to the greatest extent possible and with the support of international
cooperation and partnerships, national capacity to deliver comprehensive HIV/AIDS
programmes, as well as new and more effective antiretroviral treatments, in ways
that strengthen existing national health and social systems, as well as using HIV
platforms as a foundation for the expansion of service delivery. In this regard,
expediting action to integrate HIV information and services into programmes for
primary health care, sexual and reproductive health, including voluntary family
planning and mother and child health, treatment for tuberculosis, hepatitis C and
sexually transmitted infections and care for children affected, orphaned or made
vulnerable by HIV/AIDS, as well as nutrition and formal and informal education;
(e) Planning for long-term sustainability, including addressing the expected
increase in demand for second and third line drug regimens to treat HIV, malaria
and tuberculosis;
(f) Strengthening support to affected countries in order to respond to HIV
co-infection with tuberculosis, as well as multi-drug resistant and extensively drug
resistant tuberculosis, including through earlier detection of all forms of
tuberculosis;
(g) Sustaining national efforts and programmes, with the support of the
international community, to address the challenges posed by malaria by
strengthening effective prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies, including by
ensuring the accessibility to and availability of affordable, quality and effective
medicines, generics, including artemisinin-combination therapy, as well as progress
in the use of long-lasting, safe insecticide-treated bed nets to combat malaria and
strengthening ongoing research for the prompt development of malaria vaccines;
(h) Renewing efforts to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases,
prevention and treatment services for malaria and tuberculosis, including by
improving national health information systems, strengthening international
cooperation, accelerating further research and development, developing innovative
vaccines and medicines and adopting comprehensive prevention strategies;
(i) Undertaking concerted action and a coordinated response at the national,
regional and global levels in order to adequately address the developmental and
other challenges posed by non-communicable diseases, namely cardiovascular
diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, working towards a
successful high-level meeting of the General Assembly in 2011;
(j) Increasing efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention,
treatment, care and support, strengthening the fight against malaria, tuberculosis and
other diseases, including by providing adequate funding for the Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and through the agencies, funds and
programmes of the United Nations system and other multilateral and bilateral
channels, strengthening innovative financing mechanisms, as appropriate, and
contributing to the long-term sustainability of the response.
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