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2.
ALSO RE-COMMIT to keeping the struggle against HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
high on national, regional and continental agendas; and ensuring
accountability for results and targets to be achieved in the response to these
diseases, and for efficient utilization of resources budgeted for health;
3.
ENDORSE the Report and recommendations on the Future Direction of AIDS
Watch Africa (AWA) 2012-2015, and the “Shared Responsibility and Global
Solidarity for AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria Response in Africa:
Roadmap 2012-2015”;
4.
DECIDE to fully incorporate the AWA Secretariat into the structures and
regular budget of the African Union Commission from 2013 onwards;
5.
ALSO DECIDE that each AWA Action Committee Head of State and
Government nominate an expert conversant with AIDS, TB and Malaria as
his/her representative on the Consultative Experts Committee and the National
Working Group on AWA;
6.
FURTHER DECIDE to call for a parallel meeting on shared responsibility and
Global Solidarity for the AIDS response on the sidelines of UN General
Assembly in New York in September 2012 and URGED all AU Heads of State
and Government to participate in the meeting;
7.
ENCOURAGE all AU Heads of State and Government to join AIDS Watch
Africa and, led by the AWA Action Committee, to champion the campaign
against HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria in Africa by 2015. To this end, we will lay
emphasis on mobilizing increased domestic resources, improving value for
money, enhancing planning and using existing resources more rationally;
8.
URGE Member States to collaborate with people living with and affected by
HIV and re-mobilize society as a whole for renewed response to AIDS, TB and
Malaria in Africa through more innovative and sustainable mechanisms and
well-coordinated partnerships. Focus should be on prevention of new HIV, TB
and Malaria infections, ensuring good nutrition and more equitable access to
affordable and quality-assured medicines and health-related commodities;
9.
CALL UPON Development Partners to meet their previous commitments,
sustain and coordinate their support for the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria
in the continent, in the spirit of promoting global solidarity, health and
development;
10.
REQUEST UN Agencies, Civil Society Organizations, the private sector and
other international organizations and partnerships, to intensify and coordinate
their support and collaboration at all levels;
11.
ALSO REQUEST Regional Economic Communities and Regional Health
Organizations, in collaboration with the AU and other partners, to redouble
their efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria in their respective
regions;