"For our personnel, pre-deployment HIV training is standard.We have trai...

"For our personnel, pre-deployment HIV training is standard.We have trained over 1,500 peacekeepers as peer counsellors. The number of blue helmets seeking voluntary counselling and testing increased from fewer than 2,000 to more than 14,000 in just five years. But we are not just helping our peacekeepers – they work so people recovering from war do not also have to recover from disease. It is all part of the broader mission this Council entrusts to our troops: to stop gender and sexual-based violence; to enhance the role of women; and to protect children. And it is part of a broader international campaign: the Global Strategy on Women's and Children's Health. In conflict zones, in refugee camps - anywhere people fear for their lives - women, young people and children are more vulnerable to contracting HIV. "