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Veronica Barajas P.0 WHO Kenya

Policy Paper

__Backround__: Today we are facing some serious problems that people around the world don't seem to notice or don't take serious. Overpopulation is one of the biggest problem in our world. Overpopulation, which is the growth of a population in which space, food, water, or other necessities to support life are not enough.Overpopulation may be caused by birth rates increasing or immigration and may cause other problems such as global waring, poverty, malnutrition, and deforestation. The cause of 16 million hectares of forests to be cut down per year and is a source for animal's and specie's extinction. the world's world's population is currently increasing by approximately 75 million people per year.

__UN Involvement__: WHO is the one organization that is in charge for health issues working together with the UN. WHO was the first organization to state overpopulation as a problem, supported by the data they collected stating that overpopulation is a threat."The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) helps countries to collect and analyze population data that can help them understand the population trend," and therefore be aware if there is any problems in a country that has to do with overpopulation.

__Nation Involvement:__ UnfortunatelyKenya is not one of those countries that suffer from overpopulation. Kenya counts with an estimated 37,953,840 of population. There has been an increase in the mortality rates, AIDS, being the reason. There has been an estimated 2.758% rate of population growth. Although Kenya doesn't really suffer from this problem it supports other countries to prevent overpopulation to increase also because of all the damage that it can cause to all the citizens in the country that is suffering from this problem.

__Solutions__: Therefore, Kenya strongly believes that this programs that supports the prevention of overpopulation should keep on growing with the help of other countries. Kenya also believes that this problem should be publicized by the media so every person gets aware thatt today we face a big problem and it includes our future, overpopulation being the problem! If people look at this as a problem that can is really affecting us they will start to think and maybe all together come up with a solution! Meanwhile we should keep the UNFPA working and involving every country as posible to work together on preventing overpopulation from increasing..