Distr.: Limited 9 March 2006 Original:  English

             Economic and Social Council

Commission on the Status of Women

Fiftieth session

27 February-10 March 2006

Agenda item 3

Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to

the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women

2000: gender equality, development and peace for the

twenty-first century”

Botswana:* revised draft resolution

Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS

The Commission on the Status of Women,

Reaffirming the Beijing Declaration1 and Platform for Action,2 the outcome documents of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly,3 the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,4 the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS,5 adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth special session in 2001, the HIV/AIDS-related goals contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 20006 and the Millennium Development Goals, in particular the aim of Member States to have halted, by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS,

Recalling the commitment from the 2005 World Summit of developing and implementing a package for HIV prevention treatment and care with the aim of coming as close as possible to the goal of universal access to treatment by 2010, for all those who need it,

Also recalling all previous resolutions on this subject,

* On behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Southern African Development Community.

1 Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995 (United Nations publications, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.

2 Ibid., annex II.

3 General Assembly resolution S-23/2, annex, and resolution S-23/3, annex.

4 Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September

1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

5 General Assembly resolution S-26/2, annex.

6 General Assembly resolution 55/2.

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