FORUM: SPECIAL CONFERENCE Sub-Commission 2

QUESTION OF: Ensuring international commitment to further combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases
SUBMITTED BY: United Kingdom
THE SPECIAL CONFERENCE,
Recalling the sixth Millennium Development Goal, which states to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases,
Concerned that 35 million people were still living with HIV as of 2013,
Recognizing that the Global Fund has delivered nearly 122 million bed nets for people around the world
to protect them from malaria,
Shocked by the fact that 99% of those who die from HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases live in the
developing world,
Acknowledges Swaziland, Nigeria, The Russian Federation, China for being countries with the twentytwo highest cases HIV/AIDS and malaria,
1) Suggests that all Member States inform their citizens about different diseases through methods such
as, but not limited to:
a) additions or revisions to school curriculums, so that include sex education courses dangers,
symptoms, and ways to avoid infection of diseases
b) using the Internet and social media to educate people only in the middle and upper class by:
i. creating UN sponsored educational campaigns through posting awareness messages on
social media sites
ii. placing links to the UN sponsored social media sites on UN websites
c) airing TV and radio programs and advertisements
d) establishing hotlines for people to ask questions to be informed on the diseases,
2. Strongly Encourages organizations that have money such as UNAIDS,) Medicins Sans Frontieres
(Doctors Without Borders), and MEDCs to fully and entirely support political and financial efforts,
through the means of;
a) sending engineers, scientists and doctors to aid these countries in order to build better hospitals
in rural areas or alternately improved hospitals in these areas by:
i. including up-to-date and environmentally sustainable medicinal and surgical technology in
the refitting of said hospitals
ii. implementing hospitals or medcal nfrastructures that will provide locals with standard
medical kits, sanitation kits, and LifeStraws (and/ or water purification tablets) to
combat the spread of disease
iii. making medicine continuously available and affordable
iv. improving transportation infrastructure to aid in accessibility

b) contributing to funds which will go towards developing and creating reliable, cost effective
technologies and further assisting in financial support wherever needed,
3. Strongly urges all countries afflicted with highly infectious diseases, along with those who have a
reasonable risk of becoming afflicted in the future to:
a) brief policy makers and leaders on the nature of these diseases and the way in which it spreads
b) seek and accept information from Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) and nations that are
knowledgeable on these diseases that would include:
i. general information on the infections
ii. known treatments
iii. possible methods to reduce risk and infection rates
iv. policies that have worked in the past to counter these diseases
c) create a comprehensive plan, based on this information, to deal with any future, impending or
ongoing outbreaks which could occur
4. Endorses research into new or improved treatments for the diseases through methods such as but not
limited to:
a) nations, especially MEDCs, subsidizing research and money
b) countries sharing the results of research with each other, especially to countries where the disease
is prominent, or to perform research cooperatively through leadership and organization from the
aforementioned NGOs
5. Emphasizes the need for effective, safe and sanitary medical facilities and practices such as, but not
limited to:
a) checkups and health attention with aid from NGOs and MEDCs by:
i. giving retroviral treatment to mothers in the two weeks before the scheduled birth,
ii. encouraging the mother to give birth through a cesarean delivery (also known as a Csection),
iii. providing retroviral medication to babies born to HIV-infected mothers for at least 6 weeks
after their birth
iv. not allowing mothers who were infected with HIV when giving birth to a child to feed the
baby breast milk and must instead feed the baby infant formula,
v. encouraging mothers to not feed their children pre-chewed food as there is a risk that HIV
can be spread through saliva
b) regular inspections to be made of medical facilities by qualified officials from the World Health
Organization (WHO), or other relevant NGOs, with fines placed upon them if they fail to meet
the requirements after three inspections, which would include ensuring that hand-washing,
sterilized health instruments are used and other sanitary precautions are taken
8. Further requests that all economic transactions and statistical information on the health care of locals be
made as transparent as possible by having local governments, and NGOs fully cooperate with trusted UNaffiliated companies such as Transparency International.