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Annexure IAnnexure IConcluding observations by treaty monitoring bodies on issuesrelevant to the right to health and the response to HIV/AIDSCountry Treaty Concluding Observations, Comments SourceBangladeshCEDAWThe Committee was concerned about the fact that maternalmortality and infant mortality rates remained high and thatavailable primary health and reproductive health serviceswere still inadequate and often inaccessible to poor, ruraland marginalised women. Moreover, family planningservices still mainly targeted women, and not enougheducation on male responsibility in reproduction had beenintroduced. The Committee encouraged the Government ofBangladesh to strengthen its primary health andreproductive health services aimed at substantiallyimproving the health and well being of women.Committee on theElimination of All forms ofDiscrimination AgainstWomen, A/52/38/Rev.1,Part II, paras.409–464(12 August 1997).BangladeshCRCThe Committee is of the view that insufficient measureshave been adopted to promote widespread awareness ofthe principles and provisions of the Convention, and remainsconcerned at the lack of adequate and systematic trainingfor professional groups working with and for children,including judges, lawyers, law enforcement personnel,health professionals, teachers, social workers, personnelworking in child-care institutions for children and policeofficers. With regard to the implementation of Article 2 [thenon-discrimination clause] of the Convention, the Committeeexpresses its concern at the persistence of discriminatoryattitudes and harmful practices affecting girls, as illustratedby serious disparities, sometimes starting at birth andaffecting the enjoyment of the rights to survival, health,nutrition and education. The Committee also notes thepersistence of harmful practices such as dowry and earlymarriage. Discriminatory attitudes towards children bornout of wedlock, children who are living and/or working onthe street, child victims of sexual exploitation, children withdisabilities, refugee children and children belonging to tribalminorities are also a matter of concern.Committee on the Rights ofthe Child, CRC/C/15/Add.74, (18 June 1997).IndiaCEDAWThe Committee is concerned that women and girls areexploited in prostitution and inter-state and cross-bordertrafficking. It is also concerned that those women areexposed to HIV/AIDS and health risks and that existinglegislation encourages mandatory testing and isolation.Committee on theElimination of All forms ofDiscrimination againstWomen Twenty-secondsession, 17 January–4 ebruary 2000.MaldivesCEDAWThe Committee notes with concern that the health andnutrition of girls suffer after puberty and that maternalmortality and morbidity rates and the mortality rate of girlsCommittee on theElimination of All forms ofDiscrimination againstRegional Human Development ReportHIV/AIDS and Development in South Asia 2003 159