11+China

Committee: 11 Committee Topic: HIV/AIDS Country: China

Valerie M. Period: 3

HIV stands for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus infects the cells that make up the human body and replicate within those cells, the virus can also harm human cells, which is a way the person would get sick. AIDS is a medical condition. If you have HIV you can get AIDS, because HIV has damaged their natural defenses against disease. There are some ways your can get these diseases such as: unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person, contact with an infected person's blood, from mother to child HIV, use of infected blood products, and injecting drugs.There is still no solution to HIV/AIDS but many foundations and groups and coming up with ways to stop HIV/AIDS from spreading.
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The United Nations has given effort of trying to help this situation in China. The spread of HIV/AIDS has spread to a tremendous number of people with these diseases. They started a Global Fund, which is a unique global public-private partnership created three years ago. This was to battle against these two diseases and TB. The Global Fund has committed money for China and to help with the diseases. They gave $56 million for HIV/AIDS, $53.5 million to fight tuberculosis and $3.5 million to fight Malaria. They have also come up with many great ideas.
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China has been a concerned and aware nation. They have recognized that even low overall HIV infection is treated in the long run. They are moving quickly to put in place an anti-discrimination law to build programs for those who are infected already and to prevent this infections from spreading even more. They are planning on targeting sex workers and drug users because they are the two main causes of this disease. China is willing to contribute funds/programs to help this sexual disease to stop spreading and killing people. The first case of AIDS in China was found in Beijing in the year of 1985. When it was first found they made the foreign people get tested and get a certificate from their country saying that they are not infected by HIV. When they first studied it, authorities stated that AIDS was not given by homosexuality or abnormal people, which was found to be the main causes of the spread, but that it was a "limited" problem. Soon they found out another way of how people would get this disease, they learned that about 150 people have been infected by using other people's needles or drug tools. About ten years later the spread of HIV/AIDS has risen to about 50,000 and 100,000. The affect of the spread of these diseases has risen to about 700,000 people living with HIV and 75,000 AIDS patients. Around 39,000 people have died from AIDS and they still have not come up with a solution to help stop the spread of these sexual diseases.
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My solution to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS is to make it mandatory for everyone to have a Clear Card. China would make it mandatory for people to get checked before entering their nations, and I think it would be a good idea to start that again. A Clear Card would be mandatory in every nation and every person would have to get checked once a month to see if the have HIV/AIDS and if they did then they would be under medication. Depending on if the nation would want to pay for the medication or not, they would have to be in programs to help them control the spread. China could help teach other nations about this idea, and make it mandatory for everyone to have a Clear Card.
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