Assembly/AU/4(XI) Page 4 e) Africa’s Common Position to the UN General Assembly Special Session on AIDS (June 2006), together with the Brazzaville Commitment on Scaling Up Towards Universal Access to HIV/AIDS Services in Africa. f) The Continental Framework for Harmonization of Approaches and Policies on Human Rights and People Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS. The Outcomes of the Special Summit focused on the following priority areas for action with targets to be met by 2010: - Practical Leadership at National, Regional and Continental levels; Resource mobilization; Protection of Human Rights; Poverty Reduction, Health and Development; Strengthening Health Systems; Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support; Access to Affordable Medicine and Technologies; Research and Development; Implementation; Partnerships whereby the roles of each stakeholder were clearly spelt out Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting. In conclusion, the Heads of State and Government then requested the AU Commission together with RECs and development partners to coordinate the following activities during 2008: i. Carry out a Consultative Review on the Status of Implementation of the Abuja “Call for Accelerated Action Towards Universal Access to HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria by 2010”, the African Common Position on HIV/AIDS and of the MDGs and report to the AU Organs and the UN General Assembly. ii. Intensify collective advocacy and action towards Malaria Elimination in Africa, especially around Malaria Control Day (25 April 2008), aimed at eventual eradication. iii. Accelerate efforts to reverse and contain the challenges posed by the emergency due to Tuberculosis on its own and as a complication of advanced HIV infection. In this connection, the Conference of Ministers of Health requested for a Status Report on Tuberculosis, among others, indicating the TB multi- and extremely multi-drug resistance situation, and how it should be addressed. BACKGROUND In acknowledgement of the high and increasing widespread poverty, high death rates, ill-health and low social welfare services that still prevail in the world and