UN Issue: NS HIV AIDS Act

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NS HIV AIDS Act
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.


Category: Social Justice
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Pilot

Description: DECLARING that the level of HIV and AIDS infection across the world has grown to the point whereas it demands immediate action;

DEEPLY DISTURBED over the lack of attention given to the problem;

NOTING FURTHER the NationStates United Nations obligation to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of its member nations;

RECOGNIZING the advances made by the United Nations Resolution #32 "Global AIDS Initiative", as well as its limitations;

BELIEVING that through a series of early diagnosis measures, medical accessibility and education, and further research the world could advance far in eliminating the HIV and AIDS viruses;

REQUESTS the following steps be taken to curb the proliferation of this deadly ailment:
i. Expansion of the United Nations Council on AIDS (UNAIDS), allocating it sufficient and adequate budget to hire staff and management, purchase top-grade equipment and finance international operations.
ii. Expansion of the United Nations Council on AIDS (UNAIDS) mission offices to all member states of the United Nations. This project would be slotted to finish after ten yearly budget cycles and the funds will be drawn from that budget to finance it.
iii. Establishment of Know HIV/AIDS program, which will operate internationally as a media outlet for education and prevention of the virus through on-air public service messages and outdoor advertisements, television and radio programming, and free print and online content.
iv. Creation of Think HIV/AIDS program that will use a large portion of the funds to explore the following possibilities: (1) nanotechnology and biomedical developments may allow a designer virus and/or micro machine and/or bacterium to safely course through the body and destroy the virus; (2) development of alternatives to blood transfusion – an operation that has helped to spread the virus – including blood substitutes, volume expanders, or new growth factors. These possibilities are to be given priority but in no way restrict nations from expanding their research into other areas of possible cure and/or vaccine and/or treatment.
v. Establishment of public health departments, a Treat HIV/AIDS program, in developing and poor nations, with the ability to deploy the educational and research programs aforementioned, to be overseen by the IRCO until such time as sufficient and adequate budget and manpower exists to maintain the programs domestically.
vi. Creation of Eliminate HIV/AIDS program throughout member states that implore the uses of education in schools and hospitals, including seminars for children “coming of age” about the dangers of HIV and AIDS and instructions on how to protect themselves with the most current and efficient methods available in the world.

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT United Nations resolution #42, "Increased Access to Medicine”, a large portion of the funds from the “Eliminate HIV/AIDS" program will be used to teach citizens of the member states who are already infected with HIV or AIDS how to remain in compliance with their medication and therapy regimens, and to teach citizens who are not infected how to avoid coming into contact with the virus;

RECOMMENDS that all member states will adopt a law that punishes those citizens knowledgably infected with the virus that transmit it to other citizens;

DECLARES ACCORDINGLY that all member nations report full statistics of HIV and AIDS infection to the United Nations Council on AIDS (UNAIDS).

Votes For: 4,804

Votes Against: 767

[Delegate Votes]

Voting Ends: Tue Dec 28 2004

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Any thoughts folks?

[The Catholic Worker]

I have not looked at the proposal in great depth but section iv troubles me with its pronouncements of nanotechnologies.

[allers]

i didn't really read everything:but i just dont like the recommendation..."RECOMMENDS that all member states will adopt a law that punishes those citizens knowledgably infected with the virus that transmit it to other citizens; "


and :"and to teach citizens who are not infected how to avoid coming into contact with the virus"

are we back to middle ages?

[Anarchic Tribes]

AT won't be voting for this.

Do you guys believe that the virus was created in a lab for the purpose of human destruction?

[The Catholic Worker]

Anarchic said:

AT won't be voting for this.

Do you guys believe that the virus was created in a lab for the purpose of human destruction?

I've heard of similar ideas, and although I could not in good conscience dismiss it, I don't have anything more substantiate it.

However, what is very much an explicit example of callous and purposeful human destruction is the apathy with which the rest of the world has relegated itself to, in regards to this issue. There is a toxic level of racism and disregard for human life which taints the inaction.

One could only imagine the contrast were AIDS to be ravaging Europe...

[BlacknRedJuntas]

The Juntas will be voting against due to the punitive aspect and the media/advertising section. However, the rest, including biotech, would have been supportable.

[Anarchic Tribes]

last chance to vote. Where's No Breaks with this?
Has it been made clear that this region wants the delegate to vote 'against'?
Do phrases such as:

but section iv troubles me

but i just dont like the recommendation...

won't be voting for this

will be voting against due to

conclude that we want to vote 'against' as a region?
Any thoughts?
One thought is that when the next resolution comes up (too late for this one) we have a simple straight forward 'poll':
we want the delegate to vote - for/against/abstain/NOTA.
The debate can continue on the thread, but headed with a clearly defined poll perhaps giving the delegate an idea of what the nations in the region want.

AT voted against the current issue.