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This guide is designed to help nationwide human rights associations to combine HIV into their mandate to guard and advertise human rights. It presents a simple evaluation of the position of human rights in a good reaction to the epidemic and indicates concrete actions that nationwide associations can perform inside of their latest paintings. It additionally offers percentages for enticing with the nationwide HIV reaction so that it will defend and advertise human rights. The guide is essentially meant to be used through employees of nationwide human rights associations, civil society agencies, networks of individuals residing with HIV and nationwide AIDS programmes. it's going to be learn including the overseas guidance on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.

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Treatment of sexually transmittable infections; S : 3. By 2005, ensure that at least 90 per cent, and by 2010 at least 95 per cent of young men and women aged 15 3 24 have access to the information, education, including peer education and youth-specific HIV education, and ervices necessary to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection, in full partnership iith young persons, parents, families, educators and health-care providers; 4. By 2005, reduce the proportion of infants infected with HIV by 20 per cent, and by 50 per cent by 2010, by nsuring that 80 per cent of pregnant women accessing antenatal care have information, counselling and other IlV-prevention services available to them, increasing the availability of and providing access for HIV-infected iomen and babies to effective treatment to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV, as well as through effecve interventions for HIV-infected women, including voluntary and confidential counselling and testing, access to 'eatment, especially antiretroviral therapy and, where appropriate, breast-milk substitutes and the provision of a ontinuum of care; :are, support and treatment :are, support and treatment are fundamental elements of an effective response 5.

Integrate HIVIAIDS actions in development assistance programmes and poverty eradication strategies as appropriate, and encourage the most effective and transparent use of all resources allocated; 86. Call on the international community, and invite civil society and the private sector to take appropriate measures to help alleviate the social and economic impact of HIVIAIDS in the most affected developing countries; 87 Wlthout f-rther oelay, Imp ement me enhance0 Heav~y lndeoted Poor Country (HIPC) In11at ve ano agree ro cancel al o~lateraloffcnal oebts of hlPC countries as soon as poss ble, espec~aly those most affected oy HIVIAIDS.

Devote sufficient time and at least one full day of the annual session of the General Assembly to review and debate a report of the Secretary-General on progress achieved in realizing the commitments set out in the present Declaration, with a view to identifying problems and constraints and making recommendations on action needed to make further progress; 101. Ensure that HIVIAIDS issues are included on the agenda of all appropriate United Nations conferences and meetings; 102. Support initiatives to convene conferences, seminars, workshops, training programmes and courses to follow up issues raised in the present Declaration, and in this regard encourage participation in and wide dissemination of the outcomes of the forthcoming Dakar Conference on access to care for HIV Infection; the Sixth lnternational Congress on AlDS in Asia and the Pacific; the Twelfth lnternational Conference on AlDS and Sexually Transmitted lnfections in Africa: the Fourteenth lnternational Conference on AIDS.

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