11+Australia

Committee: 11 HIV/AIDS Australia Hanna Sommer Period: 3

//**__Background of Topic__**// HIV is a virus that attacks a person's immune system, which causes them to more likely become sick and not be able to fight off germs. People get AIDS after having HIV for a long time. A person can have HIV and not have AIDS but a person that has AIDS has HIV. Having AIDS makes you more likely to get pneumonia and cancer. People normally do not die from AIDS, however they can die from the infections or sicknesses that AIDS cause. There is no cure for AIDS although people can normally prevent themselves from getting HIV and or AIDS. It takes many years for HIV to "break down the immune system." The symptoms are shown a few years after a person has been infected by HIV. 1 out of 4 people do not know they have the virus so they spread it easier. Africa is one of the major countries that is infected by HIV/AIDS.

//__**United Nation Involvement**__// The United Nations has formed a program called UNAIDS in 1996 that educates communities and supports people with HIV/AIDS. They also teach people how to stop the spread of HIV. They have their own website that many people can go on and learn about HIV/AIDS. In 1987 HIV/AIDS was debated on the floor of the United Nations for the first time because at that time HIV was becoming a world health concern. UNAIDS and WHO work as partners to help people with AIDS by supplying medicine to help keep the HIV symptoms under control.

Australia has an organization that is called the AFAO which stands for Australian Federation of AIDS Organizations that helps people who have HIV/AIDS in the Asia and Pacific region. They also have AusAID that is an international organization that helps people with HIV/AIDS everywhere. They do not want people to spread HIV/AIDS anymore and they inform people about HIV/AIDS. They agree with what the UN has done with this topic because they have made their own organization that does the same thing but on a smaller scale. Since they agree with the UN, they also have an Ambassador that is specifically for AusAIDS; he travels to different countries in the Asian and Pacific area to learn more about how HIV is being spread.
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__//**Solution**//__ My solution to the problem of HIV/AIDS is to start a organization called IT IS TIME. In this organization the UN gives money to scientist and/or doctors to experiment to find a cure. Any one can give money to this organization by sending it to the UN first so they know it actually goes to that cause. The doctors and/or scientists will have to apply for a grant in order to get their money. When the doctors and/or scientist find a cure depending on what country you live in you will either have to pay for the cure or you will get it for free. Not every country has to have this cure but it would be a smart decision and it would be provided to every country.

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