(e) To prevent HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, educate high-risk groups, children and adolescents as well as the general public on their transmission, provide support to persons with HIV/AIDS and their families, and reduce social stigma and discrimination;?? (f) To ensure affordable access to essential drugs, as defined by the WHO, including anti-retroviral medicines and medicines for chronic diseases;** and (g) To treatment adequate ensure psychiatric facilities for mental health and care in patients, as well as periodic review and effective judicial control (b) The availability of technical and vocational education, and whether it enables students to acquire knowledge and skills which contribute to their personal development, self-reliance and employability.*? 61. Indicate the measures taken to make higher education equally accessible to all and without discrimination, on the basis of capacity, and the concrete steps taken towards progressively achieving free higher education.” 62. Indicate the measures taken to promote literacy, as well as adult and continuing education, in a lifelong perspective. of confinement. Article 13. 58. Indicate to what extent the form and substance of education in the State party are directed towards the aims and objectives identified in article 13, paragraph 1,** and whether school curricula include education on economic, social and cultural rights. 59. Indicate how the obligation to provide primary education that is compulsory and available free for all is implemented in the State party, in particular: (a) The level or grade until which education is compulsory and free for all; (b) Any direct costs such as school fees, as well as the measures taken to eliminate them; and (c) Any indirect costs (e.g. expenses for school books, uniforms, transport, special fees such as exam fees, contributions to district education boards, etc.) and the measures taken to alleviate the impact of such costs on children from poorer households. 60. Indicate the education in its and vocational accessible to all, (a) measures taken to make secondary different forms, including technical education, generally available and including: Concrete steps taken by the State party towards 63. Indicate whether minority and indigenous children have adequate opportunities to receive instruction in or of their native language and the steps taken to prevent lower educational standards for these children,** their segregation in special classes, and their exclusion from mainstream education. 64. Indicate the measures taken to ensure the same admission criteria for boys and girls at all levels of education,** and to raise awareness among parents, teachers and decision-makers on the value of educating girls.’ 65. Indicate the measures taken to reduce the dropout rates, at the primary and secondary levels, for children and young persons, in particulargiris, children from ethnic minorities, indigenous communities and poorer households, as well as migrant, refugee and internally displaced children. Article 14 66. If compulsory and free primary education is not currently enjoyed in the State party, provide information on the required plan of action‘ for the progressive implementation, within a reasonable number of years fixed in this plan, of this right. Also indicate any particular difficulties encountered, in the adoption and implementation of this plan of action, as well as the measures taken to overcome these difficulties. progressively achieving free secondary education;** and 39 40 41 42 14 lbid,, para, 16. Ibid., para. 43 (d). General comment 13, paras. 4-5 and 49. Ibid., para. 14. cure ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS HANDBOOK 43 44 45 46 Ibid., paras. 15-16, Ibid., para, 20, Ibid., para. 30. General comment 16, para. 30, 48 In general comment 11, paragraph 11, the Committee asks States parties to submit their plans of action as an integral part of the reports required under the Covenant. 47 idem.