63.The Committee encourages States to recognize adolescents’ diverse realities and ensure that they have access to confidential HIV testing and counselling services and to evidence-based HIV prevention and treatment programmes provided by trained personnel who fully respect the rights of adolescents to privacy and non-discrimination. Health services should include HIV-related information, testing and diagnostics; information on contraception and the use of condoms; care and treatment, including antiretroviral and other medicines and related technologies for the care and treatment of HIV/AIDS; advice on suitable nutrition; spiritual and psychosocial support; and family, community and home-based care. Consideration should be given to reviewing HIV-specific legislation that criminalizes the unintentional transmission of HIV and the non-disclosure of one’s HIV status.
| Year | 2016 |
| Topic | Food policy Other Health-related issues |
| Document Type | General Recommendations |
| Country | N/A |
| Policy Area | Education and information |
| Human Rights Comiteee | CRC |
| Human Rights | Right to adequate food and nutrition Right to information Right to no discrimination Right to health |
| Groups Affected | Children and adolescents |
Committee on the Rights of the Child, General comment No. 20 - on the implementation of the rights of the child during adolescence, CRC/C/GC/20, (2016). Par. 63. Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2fC%2fGC%2f20&Lang=en
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