by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Small island developing States in the Pacific and their remote island communities are often unable to access the highest-quality health-care education and the latest techniques in disease control and treatment. Medical schools often need to upgrade their...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In Bhutan, only 88 per cent of pregnant women receive antenatal care, and skilled health professionals attend only 51 per cent of births. While most pregnancy-related complications are difficult to predict, they are easily treatable by trained birth...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Hospitals in developing countries face serious problems with health-service quality owing to a lack of adequate human resources, poor management of equipment and medicines, and operational inefficiency. Global development discourse, in the meantime, has...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge An estimated 4.9 million people were living with HIV in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2012. Regionally, the numbers of new HIV infections have fallen by 26 per cent since 2001, with a number of countries reducing infections by over 50 per cent in that...
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,...
