CRC/C/MEX/CO/3 page 12 to indigenous groups. It also recommends developing interventions programmes for the new challenges that emerge from the globalization and the urbanization process: child obesity as well as environmental health. Adolescent health 50. While noting the decrease in the number of teenage pregnancies, the Committee remains concerned about the prevalence of suicides in indigenous communities, the high number of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and the lack of programmes to promote sexual and reproductive health, as well as mental health. 51. The Committee recommends that the State party pay close attention to adolescent health, taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In particular, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Strengthen sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents, especially in schools, with a view to reducing the incidence of teenage pregnancies and STIs, and to provide teenage pregnant girls with the necessary assistance and access to health care and education; (b) Strengthen programmes dedicated to mental health issues such as child and adolescent suicide; (c) UNICEF. Seek technical cooperation from the World Health Organization and HIV/AIDS 52. The Committee welcomes the 2001-2006 Programme of Action for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS and STIs, the decrease in the prevalence rate, particularly in the neonatal infections; and the commitment to free access to anti-retroviral medication. However, the Committee remains concerned at the lack of data on children infected by HIV/AIDS and on orphans because of HIV/AIDS disaggregated by age; at the relatively high prevalence rate of infection among adolescents; and at the lack of strategies to attend HIV/AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children. 53. The Committee recommends that the State party, taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 3 (2003) on HIV/AIDS and the rights of the child and the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: (a) Strengthen its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, including through awareness-raising campaigns; (b) HIV/AIDS; Prevent discrimination against children infected with and affected by (c) Ensure access to child-sensitive and confidential counselling, without the need for parental consent, when such counselling is required by a child;