Calls upon UNAIDS to enhance its support to Member States in their efforts to implement the recommendations under this agenda item;
This section lists decisions made at UNAIDS PCB Meetings with an associated agenda item number, in order of most recent.
These decisions are excerpted from the "Final Decisions, Recommendations & Conclusions" documents (produced at each PCB).
Calls upon UNAIDS to enhance its support to Member States in their efforts to implement the recommendations under this agenda item;
Calls upon States, in implementation of the 2011 Political Declaration and bearing in mind its paragraphs relevant to this decision, with the support of UNAIDS and civil society, to1 :
i. Work towards achieving an enabling legal environment supportive of effective national AIDS response by intensifying national efforts to create enabling legal frameworks through law, law enforcement, and access to justice;
Agrees that the theme for the 29th Programme Coordinating Board meeting will be “HIV and Enabling Legal Environments”
Takes note of the report on the progress made by UNAIDS since 2009 on the implementation of the “UNAIDS Action Framework: Universal Access for Men who have Sex with Men and Transgender People” and calls upon UNAIDS and all partners to intensify efforts to meet the health needs of men who have sex with men and transgender people in the context of HIV and to ensure non-discrimination, in particular to urgently address the key economic, legal, social and technical barriers, which impede effective HIV responses, and to enhance their direct participation in national, regional and global HIV policy and programming*
Calls upon Member States to implement and expand programmes to reduce stigma and discrimination, within a comprehensive package of programmes to increase access to justice, at sufficient scale to improve the lives of those at risk of infection and people living with HIV
Calls upon Member States, with the support of UNAIDS, to remove punitive laws, policies and practices, that block access to HIV services, effective responses to HIV and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, in order to create an enabling environment
Calls upon Member States to further harmonize national laws governing HIV and drug use, in accordance with relevant national circumstances both from a public health and a human rights perspective