Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 A/RES/70/266 more effective AIDS response, ensure that intellectual property rights provisions in trade agreements do not undermine these existing flexibilities, as confirmed in the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, and call for early acceptance of the amendment to article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement adopted by the General Council of the World Trade Organization in its decision of 6 December 2005; (ii) Addressing barriers, regulations, policies and practices that prevent access to affordable HIV treatment by promoting generic competition in order to help to reduce costs associated with lifelong chronic care and by encouraging all States to apply measures and procedures for enforcing intellectual property rights in such a manner as to avoid creating barriers to the legitimate trade in medicines, and to provide for safeguards against the abuse of such measures and procedures; (iii) Encouraging the voluntary use, where appropriate, of new mechanisms such as partnerships, grants, prizes, tiered pricing, open -source sharing of patents and patent pools benefiting all developing countries, incl uding through entities such as the Medicines Patent Pool, to help to reduce treatment costs and encourage development of new HIV treatment formulations, including HIV medicines and point-of-care diagnostics, in particular for children; 60 (m). Commit to establishing effective systems to monitor, prevent and respond to the emergence of drug-resistant strains of HIV in populations and antimicrobial resistance among people living with HIV; 60 (n). Commit to pursuing the continuity of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and to providing a package of care for people living with HIV, tuberculosis and/or malaria in humanitarian emergencies and conflict settings, as displaced people and people affected by humanitarian emergencies face multiple challenges, including heightened HIV vulnerability, risk of treatment interruption and limited access to quality health care and nutritious food; Pursuing transformative AIDS responses to contribute to gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls 61 (a). Recognize that the unequal socioeconomic status of women compromises their ability to prevent HIV or mitigate the impact of AIDS , acknowledge the mutually reinforcing links between the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the eradication of poverty, and reaffirm that the promotion and protection of, and respect for, the human rights and fundamental freedoms of women should be mainstreamed into all policie s and programmes aimed at the eradication of poverty; 61 (b). Stress, in that regard, that the lack of protection and promotion of the human rights of all women and their sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences, and insufficient access to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, aggravates the impact of the epidemic, especially among women and girls, increasing their vulnerability and endangering the survival of present and future generations; 61 (c). Pledge to eliminate gender inequalities and gender-based abuse and violence, increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves 17/26