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; 18/26