At its 65th plenary meeting, on 4 December 2006, the General Assembly, on the proposal of a number of Member States,38 and recalling its resolution 60/262 of 2 June 2006, including its commitment to scale up efforts towards the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programmes, treatment, care and support by 2010, and its pledge to promote, at the international, regional, national and local levels, access to HIV/AIDS education, information, voluntary counselling and testing and related services, with full protection of confidentiality and informed consent, and to promote a social and legal environment that is supportive of and safe for voluntary disclosure of HIV status, decided to call upon Member States to designate a Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing Day in 2007 and to encourage Member States, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and its co-sponsors, and other relevant international and national organizations to take measures, as appropriate, in accordance with nationally determined action plans and policies and, as part of scaling up nationally driven, sustainable and comprehensive responses to achieving broad multisectoral coverage for prevention, treatment, care and support, to observe the day on 1 December 2007 or on such other day or days in 2007 as individual Member States may decide.
