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Addressee: Member States , UN System, donor agencies
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
Governments, the United Nations system and donor agencies are urged to support the formation of an international network of traditional healers who work with HIV/AIDS patients and organize expert meetings between traditional and medical practitioners on HIV/AIDS and traditional medicine.
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: UNAIDS, SPFII
Paragraph Number: 18
Session: 5 (2006)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum urges the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to engage with the Permanent Forum and other partners in the global AIDS movement, to initiate universal access to treatment, to develop a set of resources highlighting effective approaches and best practices for HIV prevention and AIDS care in indigenous communities, particularly from the developed world, including the development of an appropriate paper to provide guidance to national HIV surveillance systems, and to advocate and promote meaningful participation of indigenous peoples in HIV policy and planning
Area of Work: Health
Addressee: United Nations Agencies, Member States
Paragraph Number: 37
Session: 8 (2009)
Full Text:
The Permanent Forum recommends that States and United Nations agencies apply the rights affirmed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples throughout their operational frameworks for implementing the Programme of Action for the Decade, in particular its objective on free, prior and informed consent by indigenous peoples.
Area of Work: Second Decade
