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States to study its outcomes and recommendations; 30
43. Calls upon all States to include, within the overall context of policies and
programmes for all children within their jurisdiction, appropriate provisions for the
realization of the rights of children in early childhood, in particular:
(a) To ensure that the rights of the child are fully respected, especially in
early childhood, without discrimination on any grounds, including by adopting
and/or continuing to implement regulations and measures that ensure the full
realization of all their rights;
(b) To provide special support and assistance to children in early childhood
who are suffering from discrimination or living under especially difficult
circumstances, in order to ensure their physical and psychological recovery and
social integration and the full realization of their rights within an environment that
encourages dignity and self-respect;
(c) To adopt, implement and strengthen appropriate policies aimed at
ensuring universal access to quality and affordable services, especially health,
nutrition, education, welfare, social protection, safe drinking water and sanitation
and other services that are essential for the child’s well-being, and, in this regard, to
pay particular attention to the most vulnerable children and those living under
especially difficult circumstances;
(d) To strengthen efforts towards poverty eradication, including for families
with children in early childhood, so as to help to ensure the realization of their right
to an adequate standard of living;
(e) To take measures to improve prenatal, perinatal and post-natal care for
mothers and newborns, reducing infant, child and maternal mortality, such as
improving the access to health-care systems, including for sexual and reproductive
health, emergency obstetric and newborn care, the distribution and use of
insecticide-treated nets, vaccination campaigns, the prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV and the strengthening of international cooperation and
technical assistance urgently required in developing countries to reduce maternal
mortality and morbidity and improve maternal and newborn health;
(f) To strengthen efforts significantly towards the goal of universal access to
comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support to prevent the
spread of the HIV epidemic and alleviate and control the detrimental impact of
HIV/AIDS on children and including by taking all appropriate measures to prevent
mother-to-child transmission of HIV, to provide timely, accurate diagnosis and
effective treatment, including antiretroviral therapies and to ensure adequate
alternative care and psychosocial support for children who have lost parents or other
primary caregivers to HIV/AIDS;
(g) To strengthen national and international efforts to improve the
accessibility to and availability of safe, affordable, quality and effective medicines,
including innovative and generic, in particular for the treatment of children in early
childhood;
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See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, document 2010/ED/MOSCOW/ME/1
REV.3. Available from www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/resources/publications/unesdoc-database/.
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