E/C.12/GRC/CO/2 34. The Committee recommends that the State party should, taking into account the Committee’s general comment No. 4 (1991) on the right to adequate housing, adopt all appropriate measures to ensure access to adequate housing for Roma, inter alia by regularizing “irregular” houses where possible, ensuring that adequate resources are allocated to increase the supply of social housing units and providing appropriate forms of financial support, such as rental subsidies. The Committee also recommends that the State party take steps to ensure that Roma communities are consulted throughout eviction procedures, afforded due process guarantees and provided with alternative accommodation or compensation enabling them to acquire adequate accommodation, and that the State party take into account the Committee’s general comment No. 7 (1997) on forced evictions. The Committee encourages the State party to make use of the regional funds available to improve access to adequate housing for Roma. The State party should also collect data on the number of persons who are homeless or inadequately housed and take policy and financial measures to expand the availability and quality of social housing for homeless persons and lowincome families. Health-care system 35. The Committee is concerned about the severe impact of the financial crises on the health system, especially in the mental-health sector, which led to a decrease in health expenditure and critical understaffing of the health system. It notes the explanation provided by the delegation, but is concerned that asylum seekers and undocumented migrants continue to encounter difficulties in gaining access to health-care facilities, goods, services and information (art. 12). 36. Taking into account its general comment No. 14 (2000) on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, the Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Progressively increase health-care expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product with a view to complying with its obligation to fulfil the right to health under the Covenant and the State party’s Constitution; (b) Take effective measures to ensure that there are sufficient health-care professionals, including mental-health staff, to meet the demands in medical treatment; (c) Take steps to ensure that all persons belonging to disadvantaged and marginalized groups, in particular asylum seekers and undocumented migrants and members of their families, have access to basic health care, including by guaranteeing health examinations to such persons upon their arrival in the State party and ensuring the availability of translation services and information on health-care services; (d) Take measures to further improve the infrastructure of the primary health-care system. HIV/AIDS 37. While the Committee notes the efforts taken by the State party in preventing and combating HIV/AIDS, it regrets the decrease in those measures, including the suspension of the distribution of free condoms, due to the financial and economic crisis. The Committee also notes with concern the increase in the number of HIV infections reported among injecting drug users (art. 12). 38. The Committee recommends that the State party continue its efforts to prevent and combat HIV/AIDS by enhancing its national preventive strategy, including its 8