28 • AFRICAN YOUTH CHARTER c) Provide access to youth friendly reproductive health services including contraceptives, antenatal and post natal services; d) Institute programmes to address health pandemics in Africa such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; e) Institute comprehensive programmes to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS by providing education, information, communication and awareness creation as well as making protective measures and reproductive health services available; f) Expand the availability and encourage the uptake of voluntary counselling and confidential testing for HIV/ AIDS; g) Provide timely access to treatment for young people infected with HIV/AIDS including prevention of mother to child transmission, post rape prophylaxis, and anti-retroviral therapy and creation of health services specific for young people; h) Provide food security for people living with HIV/AIDS; i) Institute comprehensive programmes including legislative steps to prevent unsafe abortions; j) Take legislative steps such as banning advertising and increasing price in addition to instituting comprehensive preventative and curative programmes