Increased Access to Medicine
Resolution Text
| Category: | Human Rights | Strength: | Significant | Proposed By: | Anthonycha |
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Description:
Diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria kill millions of people unneccesarily worldwide every year. Dozens of millions more are suffering as a result of such diseases.
This affects and hurts everyone. For businesses, this is a huge loss in consumers. For education, it is a huge loss in potential scholars. For security, many of these people can be used to serve in law enforcement and the military. For both business and security, when medicines are not made accessible or affordable, black markets selling medicine arise. There would also be less people leaving their home countries if enough and proper medicine could be provided in their home countries. And of course there is also the moral aspect of trying to save people from suffering and death.
It is in the best national and collective interest of nations worldwide to help alleviate the suffering and prevent the deaths of those suffering under the previously mentioned diseases.
If this resolution passes, access to medicine would be increased with the support of all nations in the United Nations. This help would go not just go to people within their respective home countries, but would extend to all countries within the United Nations.
Nations may do this however they wish, from subsidizing their drug industries, to having their state provide more medicine and distributing it abroad.
- Votes For: 12,046
- Votes Against: 2,568
- Implemented: Sun Dec 28 2003
