"The goal of universal coverage of services for children is rooted in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the Africa Union's African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and other international treaties to which Uganda is a signatory".
Background: The Global Partners Forum was established in 2003 to give momentum to fulfilling global commitments for children affected by HIV and AIDS laid out in the United Nations General Assembly 2001 Declaration of Commitments on HIV/AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals.
The Global Partners Forum was established in 2003 to give momentum to fulfilling global commitments for children affected by HIV and AIDS laid out in the United Nations General Assembly 2001 Declaration of Commitments on HIV/AIDS and the Millennium Development Goals.
In 2011, the Speakers of African Parliaments adopted Resolution on Declaration of Commitment for the Prioritization and Implementation of African Union Summit Decisions on Youth Development and Maternal, Newborn and Child Health [ 39].
Of the children living with HIV and AIDS who were eligible for ARV treatment, 81 per cent received it in 2009 (Country Progress Report on the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, 2010 Report, South Africa).
The monitoring and evaluation site provides information on monitoring the progress on the UNGASS Declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS.
This outcome indicator is one of several core indicators recommended to monitor the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS during the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) [5].
In Botswana, human resource constraints were identified as one factor adversely affecting the health information systems as part of the 2010 Botswana Country Report on Progress Toward the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS[ 19].
The UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS already represents one forum in which the global call for such measures as ODA increases and debt relief has been clearly spelled out [ 13], and the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health has provided another powerful voice for increased international commitment.
This was officially recognized as early as 1994 in the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development [ 22]; again in 2001 in the Political Declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS in the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on HIV/AIDS [ 23]; and again in 2005 as part of a plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals [ 24].
