A/RES/70/266
Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating
the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030
reproductive health and HIV prevention, gender equality and women’s
empowerment, human rights, physical, psychological and pubertal development and
power in relationships between women and men, to enable them to build self -esteem
and informed decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills and develop
respectful relationships, in full partnership with youn g persons, parents, legal
guardians, caregivers, educators and health-care providers, in order to enable them
to protect themselves from HIV infection;
62 (d). Commit to saturating areas with high HIV incidence with a combination of
tailored prevention interventions, including outreach through traditional and social
media and peer-led mechanisms, male and female condom programming, voluntary
medical male circumcision and effective measures aimed at minimizing the adverse
public health and social consequences of drug abuse, including appropriate
medication-assisted therapy programmes, injecting equipment programmes,
pre-exposure prophylaxis for people at high risk of acquiring HIV, ant iretroviral
therapy and other relevant interventions that prevent the transmission of HIV , with
particular focus on young people, particularly young women and girls, and
encouraging the financial and technical support of international partners as
appropriate;
62 (e). Promote the development of and access to tailored comprehensive HIV
prevention services for all women and adolescent girls, migrants and key
populations;
62 (f). Encourage Member States with high HIV incidence to take all appropriate
steps to ensure that 90 per cent of those at risk of HIV infection are reached by
comprehensive prevention services, that 3 million persons at high risk access
pre-exposure prophylaxis and that an additional 25 million young men are
voluntarily medically circumcised by 2020 in high HIV-incidence areas, and ensure
the availability of 20 billion condoms in low- and middle-income countries;
62 (g). Commit to ensuring that financial resources for prevention are adequate and
constitute no less than a quarter of AIDS spending globally on average, and are
targeted to evidence-based prevention measures that reflect the specific nature of
each country’s epidemic by focusing on geographic locations, social networks and
populations that are at higher risk of HIV infection, according to the extent to which
they account for new infections in each setting, in order to ensure that resources for
HIV prevention are spent as cost-effectively as possible and to ensure that particular
attention is paid to those populations at highest risk, depending on local
circumstances;
62 (h). Commit to ensuring that the needs and human rights of persons with
disabilities are taken into account in the formulation of all responses to HIV and that
HIV prevention, treatment, care and support programmes as well as sexual and
reproductive health-care services and information are made accessible to persons
with disabilities;
62 (i). Encourage Member States to strengthen national social and child protection
systems to ensure that, by 2020, 75 per cent of people living with, at risk of and
affected by HIV who are in need benefit from HIV -sensitive social protection,
including cash transfers and equal access to housing, and support programmes for
children, in particular for orphans and street children, girls and adolescents living
with, at risk of and affected by HIV, as well as their families and caregivers,
including through the provision of equal opportunities to support the development
of children to their full potential, especially through equal access to early child
development services, trauma and psychosocial support and education, as they
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