by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is reporting the lowest levels of new HIV infections in this century at 2.1 million. In the last three years alone, new HIV infections have fallen by 13 per cent. AIDS-related deaths are at their lowest...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge The Greater Mekong subregion, one of the worlds fasting-growing areas, has been especially vulnerable to and affected by HIV. As a land bridge between South and East Asia, it is well positioned for trade with its neighbours, yet this same advantage and...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In 2014, an estimated 2 million people were living with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean and 100,000 people became newly infected. Although the HIV response has been scaled up in several countries, regionally there has been little change in the annual...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Brazil’s constitution recognizes health as a human right and strives to provide universal health coverage and access to it for all Brazilians through their primary health-care system. Nevertheless, great disparities in health persist, with a sizable...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Obtaining access to affordable medicine is a big challenge, particularly for individual small island developing States, such as those in the Eastern Caribbean, with small populations and the tendency to procure medicine in smaller quantities. As a result,...
