7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address women's needs for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care as an essential measure for curbing the epidemic, notably by expanding access to sexual and reproductive health-care programmes – with HIV/AIDS testing, counselling and prevention services fully integrated into such programmes – and by reversing the underlying socioeconomic factors contributing to women's HIV/AIDS risk, such as gender inequality, poverty, lack of economic and educational opportunity, and lack of legal and human-rights protection;

7. Asks the Commission and the Member States to support the participation of persons with disabilities in the HIV/AIDS response and the incorporation of their human rights into national HIV/AIDS strategic plans and policies, to ensure they have access to HIV/AIDS services which are both tailored to needs and equal to the services available to other communities;

4. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to address women’s needs for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care as an essential measure for curbing the epidemic, notably by expanding access to sexual and reproductive health care programmes, with HIV/AIDS testing, counselling and prevention services fully integrated into those, and by reversing the underlying socioeconomic factors contributing to women’s HIV/AIDS risk such as gender inequality, poverty, lack of economic and educational opportunity, lack of legal and human rights protections;

At the June 2006 UN high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS, Canada committed, along with other member states, to support efforts to move toward universal access to HIV prevention, care, treatment, and support by the year 2010.

This is how they have a crucial effect, a structural effect perhaps, on prevention and HIV/AIDS care.

And thirdly, in west Africa and in Kenya, HIV-AIDS projects are highly dependent on databases and information systems for tracking epidemiological information, performance monitoring, and so forth.