HIV positive pregnant women must get PMTCT services in order to have HIV negative babies.

Improvement of the access to services for HIV AIDS counseling and testing

The White Yellow Cross Foundation has home nursing services for HIV AIDS patients.

Uniformed services report much higher HIV AIDS prevalence rates than the general population.

(vi) Strengthening health care systems and integrating HIV AIDS programmes into current health services

Worldwide, less than one person in five has access to basic HIV prevention services.

(a) Large scale HIV AIDS prevention and treatment services for IDUs put in place

Encourage people living with HIV AIDS and their relatives to combat ignorance and panic and take action to integrate HIV AIDS prevention and care into reproductive health services.

Youth participants in this initiative identified key concerns, including the need for HIV AIDS prevention, counselling and services.

(f) National data collection and reporting mechanisms, new support services for victims of trafficking and HIV prevention addressed

People in prisons were considered to be at high risk of HIV infection and it was considered important to increase HIV and drug abuse prevention and treatment services in that environment, including access to health care services comparable with those available to the general population.

(c) To integrate all aspects of HIV and AIDS treatment and care into all health care, programmes and services

Funding grants helped 10 providers in the region to improve and diversify their drug treatment and HIV prevention services.

The package comprises family planning services basic reproductive health services sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) HIV AIDS prevention activities 5 and basic research, data and population and development policy analysis.

Refugee women and adolescents are often more susceptible to HIV due to factors including inadequate knowledge, gender discrimination and violence, insufficient access to HIV prevention services and inability to negotiate safe sex.

In addition to providing voluntary counselling and testing services to new arrivals, the UNMEE HIV AIDS unit has assisted in the preparation of training courses for the HIV AIDS learning facilitators in Eritrea.

That has made it possible to hope that the quality and scope of HIV prevention and treatment services would grow.

Furthermore, there is a growing shortage of supplies needed for HIV AIDS prevention, contraception and other vital reproductive health services.

Recognizing that drug users living with HIV AIDS require treatment, health care and social services in dealing with their condition,

Because war torn areas tend to lack medicine and adequate health care services, being HIV positive is virtually a death sentence.

(c) To integrate all aspects of HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support into all health care programmes and services

The Security Council recognizes that men and women in the uniformed services are vital elements in the fight against HIV AIDS.

Considering that injecting drug use is the driving force behind the HIV AIDS epidemic in that region, provision of wide scale coverage of injecting drug users with effective HIV prevention services is of the utmost importance.

Procurement services are expected to make especially critical contributions to key results for young child survival and combating HIV AIDS and malaria.

The economic and social situation remained grave, with food shortages and inadequate health and education services and a serious problem with HIV AIDS.

In collaboration with other United Nations entities, UNODC promoted cooperation between HIV and drug dependence treatments and outreach services at the community level.

Commit ourselves to overcoming legal, regulatory or other barriers that block access to effective HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, medicines, commodities and services

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The Public Health Services in the Ministry of Health estimate that as of December 2003, the correct number of people living with HIV AIDS is 4,127.

The problem requires concerted action by policymakers and street level interventions by drug abuse and HIV AIDS prevention services, now that awareness levels have been raised.

(e) HIV AIDS prevention and treatment services provided in the context of programmes against trafficking in persons in at least 12 countries of origin or destination

Mothers with HIV caring for mothers with HIV.

The Mission has a voluntary HIV counselling and testing centre and provides mobile voluntary counselling and testing services to personnel stationed in the interior of the country.

Obviously universal access to reproductive health information and services, including through the provision of appropriate and comprehensive information to adolescents, is a vital strategy in combating HIV AIDS.

UNAIDS is working to ensure that the uniformed services become an important partner in the fight against HIV AIDS, both within their ranks and in the broader community.

But Burma s regime actually perpetuates conditions that sustain and worsen the HIV AIDS epidemic by restricting access to counseling, medication, and other support services. In order for HIV AIDS programs to be effective and sustainable, affected communities must have the freedom to organize and empower themselves.

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As I reported to the Council in April, the humanitarian situation in the subregion is already very serious due to severe food insecurity, widespread HIV AIDS and inadequate basic services.

It also offered voluntary counselling and testing services to some of the newly inducted personnel and distributed HIV AIDS educational materials and condoms to all sectors in the Mission area.

The Government of Ethiopia, for example, informed that it is conducting a multi year assessment of existing practices in HIV AIDS prevention, control, care and support services for women factory workers.

Work done in the STI HIV AIDS areas is already been undertaken by a number of NGOs such as the Family Health Association, Wan Smol Bag Theatre and Volunteer Services Overseas.

Stronger linkages must be forged between reproductive health and HIV AIDS communities and interventions, for example, by linking services wherever possible, and collaborating on budget line items at the country level.

Recognizes the importance of young men and women having access to the information, education, including peer education and youth specific HIV education, and services necessary to develop the life skills required to reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection, in full participation with young persons, parents, families, educators and health care providers