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World Health Organization (WHO)
President. Vicky Flores
· Chair: Tae Hee Lim Seo
· Moderator: María Fernanda Núñez Esquivel
Favorite subject: English
Position: Chair
Hobbies: Drawing, cooking, surfing in internet, watching cartoons, sleep.
Something I think others haven’t done: Make a homemade monkey doll.
- Moderator: María Fernanda Núñez Esquivel
Favorite subject: English
Hobbies: watch TV, practice kick boxing, walk beside the lakes
Something I think others haven’t done:
· Save a duck that had a 50% of its lounge not working. IT WAS A GIRL AND WAS CALLED LADY DI.
· I found a little boat on a lake
· I ate kangaroo meat
- Conference Officer: Sarahí Sanchez
- Favorite subject: English Hobbies: Practice football, practice the piano, play video games.Something I think others haven’t done: Save a dog life, play a song on the piano that lasted 20 minutes.
Committee: WHO (World Health Organization)
Topic A.
AIDS in Africa and administration of medicine.
AIDS is a catastrophe of unprecedented historical proportions. Since the epidemic began, 22 million people have died, 17 million in Africa. There are 13 million AIDS orphans in Africa and it is estimated that the number will grow to 40 million by the end of this decade without massive intervention.
Treatment cost over $15,000 per person per year until activists and developing country pharmaceutical companies forced the big companies to reduce prices to as low as $350 per person per year. The medical infrastructure required to manage AIDS has now been simplified; after the first several weeks, only 2-4 blood tests per year are required for monitoring. Adherence to medications (two pills, one each in the morning and evening) has been shown to be as good in poor countries as rich ones. Prevention efforts, which have lagged in much of Africa, have been given a huge boost by availability of treatment in Brazil and Botswana. Experience has shown that people are much more likely to be tested and stigma easier to reduce when treatment is available.
The United States has proposed a contribution of $200 million to the Global Fund, although they have suggested more money will be made available next year, if the fund performs acceptably. In this way the Bush Administration is setting the bar so low that the fund will be starved of resources before it starts. Given the shortage of money, policy makers will argue against providing treatment at all choosing instead to focus solely on prevention. If history is our guide, HIV prevention efforts will have limited success without availability of treatment.
IMPORTANT COUNTRIES
South Africa: South Africa has the highest number of people infected with HIV in the world, an estimated 5.6 million people were living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa in 2009, the highest number of people in any country. In the same year, it is estimated that 310,000 South Africans died of AIDS-related causes, reflecting the huge number of lives that the country has lost to AIDS over the last three decades.
Afghanistan: 478 HIV cases have been reported. However, UNAIDS and WHO estimate that there could be between 1,000 and 2,000 Afghans living with HIV. The HIV epidemic is at an early stage in Afghanistan and is concentrated among high-risk groups, mainly injecting drug users (IDUs) and their partners.
Democratic Republic of Congo: the Democratic Republic of Congo was one of the first African countries to recognize HIV, registering cases of HIV among hospital patients as early as 1983. At the end of 2001, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimated that 1.3 million Congolese (adult and children) were living with HIV/AIDS, yielding an overall HIV prevalence of 4.9%. Beyond the 5% mark, the country’s epidemic will be considered “high level,” or firmly established within the general population. By the end of 2003, UNAIDS estimated that 1.1 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, for an overall adult HIV prevalence of 4.2%.
Topic B.
AIDS caused by drug abuse.
In rich countries, drug cocktails have been remarkably successful in making AIDS a chronic disease like diabetes or hypertension. AIDS mortality dropped by over half within a few years of making such treatment available. In poor countries, less than 1/10 of 1% of the people with AIDS is being treated. Without access to medicine, almost all of the 36 million people living with AIDS will die. In the past several months, the principal objections to enhancing access to AIDS treatment have been overcome; now is the time to advocate for universal treatment.
Drug abuse and addiction have been inextricably linked with HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the pandemic. HIV transmission can occur by sharing needles and other injection paraphernalia. In fact, about one-fourth of AIDS cases in the United States have resulted from injection drug use. However, any drug and alcohol use can put people at risk for HIV by interfering with their judgment, leading to risky sexual behaviors:
- According to combined data from 2005 to 2009, 64 percent of those living with HIV/AIDS had used an illicit drug, but not intravenously; only 19 percent had never used an illicit drug.
- One in four of those living with HIV in 2009 reported use of alcohol or drugs at a level that warranted treatment.
Drug abuse and addiction can also worsen the progression of HIV and its consequences, especially in the brain. For example, animal studies have shown that stimulants can increase HIV viral replication, and in a human study, HIV caused greater neuronal injury and cognitive impairment in drug users than in nondrug users.
IMPORTANT COUNTRIES
Afghanistan: 478 HIV cases have been reported. However, UNAIDS and WHO estimate that there could be between 1,000 and 2,000 Afghans living with HIV. The HIV epidemic is at an early stage in Afghanistan and is concentrated among high-risk groups, mainly injecting drug users (IDUs) and their partners.
UK: The UK has a relatively small HIV and AIDS epidemic in comparison with some parts of the world. An estimated 91,500 people in the UK – or around 1.5 per 1000 of the UK population – are currently living with HIV. While this number is relatively low, it has increased dramatically since the 1990s, caused by drug abuse.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AIDS CAUSED BY DRUGS http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/infofacts/drug-abuse-link-to-hivaids-other-infectious-diseases Date: 24-02-2012.
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Topics
• a AIDS in Africa and administration of medicine.
• b. AIDS caused by drug abuse.
Dear delegates:
Maybe you think that this letter will be about what are the model of united nations's about, the way will help to you during your life as a person and as a student and all that stuff, but in my opinion I think that you are tired about hearing that all the time and if you don´t like this models, with does kind of speech I will make it worst.
I want to tell you that my first experience was in 6 grade, but it wasn´t a model, it was a debate without motions, points, position papers and all that stuff and when I started with PazMun I was totally scared, I thought that when I pass to the front I will felt down, I will forgot everything or I won’t understand anything. That’s why I entered to the secretariat, thinking that it will be easier for me, but it isn´t, now I know the hard work that is behind every committee so in the big day everything is perfect.
Been a delegate is not talk and talk about a country that maybe you don´t know anything, that in my case I didn´t know that it exist, it is to put yourself in the position of your country trying to make the difference, maybe not a big one, but you can start with something.
Finally, don´t start the model hating it; give you the opportunity to open your mind to new experiences, new knowledge, new countries, new cultures, and the most important of all, new people that want a difference for our future, the future or our family and the future of our world.
Sincerely,
Victoria Flores García secretary of WHO.
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