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91. Commit to enhance the quality of aid by strengthening national ownership,
alignment, harmonization, predictability, mutual accountability and transparency,
and results orientation;
92. Commit to supporting and strengthening existing financial mechanisms,
including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and relevant
United Nations organizations, through the provision of funds in a sustained and
predictable manner, in particular to those countries with low and middle incomes
with a high disease burden or a large number of people living with and affected by
HIV;
93. Recommit to fully implementing the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor
Countries Initiative and agree to cancel all eligible bilateral official debts of
qualified countries within the Initiative that reach the completion point under the
Initiative, in particular the countries most affected by HIV and AIDS, and urge the
use of debt service savings, inter alia, to finance poverty eradication programmes,
particularly for prevention, treatment, care and support for HIV and AIDS and other
infections;
94. Commit to scaling up new, voluntary and additional innovative financing
mechanisms to help to address the shortfall of resources available for the global
HIV and AIDS response and to improving the financing of the HIV and AIDS
response over the long term, and to accelerating efforts to identify innovative
financing mechanisms that will generate additional financial resources for HIV and
AIDS to complement national budgetary allocations and official development
assistance;
95. Appreciate that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a
pivotal mechanism for achieving universal access to prevention, treatment, care and
support by 2015, recognize the programme for reform of the Global Fund, and
encourage Member States, the business community, including foundations, and
philanthropists to provide the highest level of support for the Global Fund, taking
into account the funding targets to be identified at the 2012 midterm review of the
Global Fund replenishment process;
Strengthening health systems and integrating HIV and AIDS with broader health
and development
96. Commit to redouble efforts to strengthen health systems, including primary
health care, particularly in developing countries, through measures such as
allocating national and international resources, appropriate decentralization of HIV
and AIDS programmes to improve access for communities, including rural and hardto-reach populations, integration of HIV and AIDS programmes into primary health
care, sexual and reproductive health-care services and specialized infectious disease
services, improving planning for institutional, infrastructure and human resource
needs, improving supply chain management within health systems and increasing
human resource capacity for the response, including by scaling up the training and
retention of human resources for health policy and planning, health-care personnel,
consistent with the World Health Organization voluntary Global Code of Practice on
the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, 11 community health workers and
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See World Health Organization, Sixty-third World Health Assembly, Geneva, 17–21 May 2010, Resolutions
and Decisions, Annexes (WHA63/2010/REC/1).
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