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[...] [...] HIV-prevention programmesand spending priorities donot adequately reflect this [...][...]

She commended the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and its partners for their ongoing efforts to improve the health of rural populations, in particular women, and also commended UNIFEM and its partners for their efforts to halt the spread of HIV/AIDSamong women and young girls.

[...] [...] increase public awareness on issues such as AIDSprevention, unwanted pregnancies and racial and sexual discrimination.

The high-level meeting convened on HIV/AIDS in southern Africa where Ministers of Finance, Health and Education from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho met together with nine United Nations system Executive Heads, had the objectives of identifying keychallenges facing these countries in scaling up their national responses to HIV/AIDSand defining the role of the United Nations system in supporting national efforts.

[...] [...] minorities, and toextendHIV intervention programmes in [...]

For example, the percentage of children bornHIV-free toHIV-positive mothers enrolled in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme has risen to 83 per cent and is expected to reach 100 per cent by 2015.

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network congratulated the country for accepting recommendations dealing with programs to combat HIV/AIDS and promoting [...][...]

[...] [...] preventionof HIV transmission from mother to theunborn child through the [...][...]

Participation in early childhood care and education is rising, the gender gap in primary education is narrowing and literacy is on the increase.

[...] [...] funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and through the agencies, funds andprogrammes of the United Nations [...][...]

In charting the future course of theglobalAIDS response, Governments in the North and the South, donors and all [...][...]

Efforts at developmentof human capacities in least developed countries have been affected by high incidence of poverty, mass unemployment, high population growth rates, poor health and nutrition outcomes, as evidenced by high child and maternal morbidity and mortality rates and the high burden of undernutrition, the prevalence of communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and polio, and the growing burden of non-communicable diseases.

[...] [...] Myanmar: TheFuture ofthe Armed Forces, 27 September 2002; Asia Briefing N°15, Myanmar: The HIV/AIDS Crisis, 2 [...][...]

Other relevant professional experience: Consultant to the team to develop resources for training in drug dependence, injection drug use and HIV risk reduction (University of California, Los Angeles, USA and AIIMS project) (2005ongoing); consultant to the team to develop technical guidelines and resources for training in drug dependence (UCLA, USA and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna) (2005-2006); Research and Policy Adviser for project Networking for Reducing Risk Taking Behaviour amongst Young Drug Users in South Asia (UNODC) (2004-2005); Research and Policy Adviser for project on mainstreaming HIV/AIDS concerns in ongoing drug demand reduction in South Asia (A Project of the Government of India and UNODC) (2003-2004); Technical Resource person to modify the National Drug Abuse ControlProgramme of the Government (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) (2003).

The range of support will comprise all support services, including the implementation of conduct and discipline and HIV/AIDS programmes, personnel administration, health care, maintenance and construction of office and accommodation facilities, communications and information technology, air and surface transport operations, with the inclusion of round-the-clock search-and-rescue/aeromedical evacuation capability, supply and resupply operations and the provision of security services Mission-wide.

The European Union believed that a more determined effort must be made to fight poverty and HIV/AIDS, which were synonymous with denial of rights; the economic, social and cultural rights must be more vigorously promoted through legislation; torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment had to be firmly condemned; and all human rights defenders, whom it hailed for working in the face of considerable risk, should be strongly supported.

[...] [...] the NationalAIDS ControlProgramme and supported training for police forces in Afghanistan; designed and tested a model training programme onHIV in prisons for penitentiary health staff in Panama; conducted the trainingof over 1,600 [...][...]

The strategic direction of thesubprogrammederives mainly from the commitments agreed upon at relevant United Nations intergovernmental processes, including the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, the World Programme of Action on Youth, and the United Nations Millennium Declaration aswell asthe [...]

The range of support services for the 2010/11 period will focus on the efficient movement of military troops and formed police units, contingentowned and United Nations-owned equipment via road; increasing data reliability and its storage capacity through virtualization of data centres; improving throughput of data flow through the installation of wide area application services; improving management of non-expendable assets; conducting environmental baseline studies for the implementation of various green and clean projects; ensuring compliance with minimum operating security standards and minimum operating residential security standards; and implementation of conduct and discipline and HIV/AIDS programmes.

Special efforts should be made to tackle discrimination on the basis of any status of the child or parents, including poverty, ethnicity, religion, sex, mental and physical disability, HIV/AIDS orother serious illnesses, whether physical or mental, birth out of wedlock, and socio-economic stigma, and all other statuses and circumstances that can give rise to relinquishment, abandonment and/or removal of a child.

The Meeting recalled the provisions of ESCAP resolution 66/10, whereby the Commission had called upon members and associate members, inter alia, “to ground universal access in human rights and undertake measures to address stigma and discrimination, as well as policy and legal barriers to effective HIV response, in particular with regard to key affected populations” and had requested the Executive Secretary to convene a highlevel intergovernmental meeting “to assess progress against commitments in the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDSand the Millennium Development Goals and efforts to ensure universal access, and identify areas for regional cooperation, in particular in such areas as policy and legal barriers to universal access and promoting dialogue between health and other sectors, including justice, law and order and drug control”.

[...] Computer-based Training (CBT) programme, given a “UN 21 Award”, has remained a cornerstone of UNODC technical assistance delivery, and 10 new areas of the CBT curriculum are being developed: the smuggling of migrants, advanced anti-human trafficking techniques, integrity and ethics, violence against women, identity crime, first responders to a crime scene, crimes against children, wildlife trafficking, training on HIV/AIDSfor law [...]

With the highest prevalence rates and heaviest disease burdens being in societies that have nothing to do with conflict, HIV andAIDS have not created conditions of instability and insecurity, notwithstanding the apprehensions expressed in resolution 1308 (2000).

[...] [...] against women and girls; (e) involve key populations such as people livingwith HIV, sex workers, people who use drugs, men who have sex with men and transgender [...][...]