living with HIV/AIDS and vulnerable groups

States should support and cooperate with international mechanisms for monitoring and reporting on the measures they have taken for progressively realizing access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including antiretroviral and other medicines, diagnostics and related technologies. States should include relevant information in their reports to bodies monitoring their progress in complying with their international legal obligations. The data in these reports should be disaggregated in a manner that helps identify and remedy possible disparities in access toprevention, treatment, care and support, and should use existing, or develop new, evaluation tools such as indicators or audits to measure implementation. States should actively involve non-governmental organizations, including those representing people living with HIV/AIDS and vulnerable groups, in preparing such reports and in acting on the observations and recommendations received from such monitoring bodiesStates should pursue and implement international and regional cooperation aimed at transferring to developing countries technologies and expertise for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. States should support cooperation between developing countries in this regard, and should join international organizations in providing and supporting technical assistance aimed at realizing access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and सुप्पोर्ट
In their conduct in international forums and negotiations, States should take due account of international norms, principles and standards relating to human rights. In particular, they should take account of their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil rights related to health, as well as of their commitments to provide international assistance and cooperation.27 States should also avoid taking measures that would undermine access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including access to antiretroviral and other medicines, diagnostics and related technologies, either domestically or in other countries, and should ensure that medicine is never used as a tool for political pressure. Particular attention must be paid by all States to the needs and situations of developing countriesStates should, in light of their human rights obligations, ensure that bilateral, regional and international agreements, such as those dealing with intellectual property, do not impede access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including access to antiretroviral and other medicines, diagnostics and related technologies.