the commission pushed forward the language on hiv and aids recognizing the epidemic as a global health emergency and calling on governments to provide universal access to hiv prevention treatment care and support free of discrimination and with a gender perspective to meet the goal of halting and reversing the spread of hiv and aids by resolutions also recommended that policy and programme linkages and coordination between hiv and aids and sexual and reproductive health should be strengthened and included in national development plans and poverty reduction strategies all countries should strive to make accessible through the primary healthcare system reproductive health to all individuals of appropriate ages as soon as possible and no later than the year