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
from the risk of HIV infection, principally through the provision of health care and
services, including, inter alia, sexual and reproductive health, as well as full access
to comprehensive information and education, ensure that women can exercise their
right to have control over, and decide freely and responsibly on, matters related to
their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion,
discrimination and violence, in order to increase their ability to protect themselves
from HIV infection, and take all necessary measures to create an enabling
environment for the empowerment of women and to strengthen their economic
independence, and, in this context, reiterate the importance of the role of men and
boys in achieving gender equality;
61 (d). Commit to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women
and girls, to respecting, promoting and protecting their human rights, education and
health, including their sexual and reproductive health, by investing in gender responsive approaches and ensuring gender mainstreaming at all levels, supporting
women’s leadership in the AIDS response and engaging men and boys, recognizing
that gender equality and positive gender norms promote effective responses to HIV;
61 (e). Commit to addressing social norms, including by addressing the pertinent
drivers that place a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work
related to taking care of people living with HIV on women and girls;
61 (f). Commit to reducing the number of adolescent girls and young women aged
15 to 24 years newly infected with HIV globally each year to below 100,000 by 2020;
61 (g). Commit to taking urgent action, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, to
prevent and address the devastating effects of this epidemic on women and
adolescent girls;
61 (h). Commit to ending all forms of violence and discrimination against women
and girls, such as gender-based, sexual, domestic and intimate partner violence, by,
inter alia, eliminating sexual exploitation of women, girls and boys, trafficking in
persons, femicide, abuse, rape in every and in all circumstances and other forms of
sexual violence, discriminatory laws and harmful social norms that perpetuate the
unequal status of women and girls, as well as harmful practices such as child, early
and forced marriage, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, in particular of women
living with HIV, forced and coerced abortion and female genital mutilation,
including in conflict, post-conflict and other humanitarian emergencies, as these can
have serious and long-lasting impacts on the health and well-being of women and
girls throughout the life cycle and increase their vulnerability to HIV;
61 (i). Commit to adopting, reviewing and accelerating effective implementation of
laws that criminalize violence against women and girls, as well as comprehensive,
multidisciplinary and gender-responsive preventive, protective and prosecutorial
measures and services to eliminate and prevent all forms of violence against all
women and girls, in public and private spaces, as well as harmful practices;
61 (j). Address all health consequences, including the physical, mental and sexual
and reproductive health consequences, of violence against women and girls by
providing accessible health-care services that are responsive to trauma and include
affordable, safe, effective and good-quality medicines, first-line support, treatment
of injuries and psychosocial and mental health support, emergency contraception,
safe abortion where such services are permitted by national law, post -exposure
prophylaxis for HIV infection, diagnosis and treatment for sexually transmitted
infections, training for medical professionals to effectively identify and treat women
subjected to violence, as well as forensic examinations by appro priately trained
professionals;
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