Position Paper 1
Committee: Political Commission
Topic: Improving availability and Quality of Medicine related resources and strengthening health sectors worldwide
Country: The Republic of South Africa
Delegate: Bidushi Adhikari, Woodstock School


The Republic of South Africa joined the UN in 24 October 1945. Although South Africa is one of the most developed countries in Africa, it has a great quantity of people with AIDS. After investigation done in the early 80s, an organization was set up, in 1992, called the National AIDS Convention of South Africa (NACOSA). The main purpose of the organization was to make ways of preventing AIDS among the South African people. After a year, the number of recorded HIV infections had increased by 60%. By 1998 the situation was getting worse, 1,500 people were getting admitted everyday in the hospitals because of the widespread of AIDS. In 2005, it was estimated that 18.8 million people out 42.5 million of were infected by HIV AIDS. Some predict that this is the product of poverty, poor governing, sexual violence, and the low status of women. Other diseases commonly found in South Africa are malaria, dengue fever, typhoid fever which is transmitted thorough unhygienic water and food.
In 2002, South Africa’s High Court asked the government to make a drug that will help unborn babies not be infected by HIV from the mother. In the last 10 years, AIDS among the people has increased, but so has the help. Treatments have been publicly offered to the citizens. During the same year, 40% of the country’s expenditure went to aid its people with HIV AIDS. From the UN, there are many forms of aid provided to South Africa. Millennium Development Goals are one of such. This organization helps South Africa meets its development objectives like a healthy life for everyone. By early 2005, there were 30 000 thousand persons receiving aid by the ARV programme, which is an African organization that makes drugs to hold back the HIV virus and the spreading of it. It stands for antiretroviral therapy. The South African government is also trying to educate the people to make them aware of AIDS. 200 hospitals have also been built, presently.
Looking through all of these facts, there are certain suggestions to be made. Since, not all the medication sent from the UN goes to South African people, UN should send WHO or people from specialized organizations into the country and hand out drugs that cure and/or immunize. The UN can also donate money for making the hospitals more reliable and clean to maintain a hygienic environment. The UN should also educate the people and teach them about HIV AIDS and how it can be spread, by volunteers from other prosperous countries. Several precautions should also be taken for a hygienic area. Developed countries should donate more money to help the South Africans. The UN should also make sure that there are certain organizations established for the health care for the people, and help with the psychological effect of diseases on people affected by them. These solutions do not only apply to South Africa, but the rest of the world where health is a major issue.

Position Paper 2
Committee: Political Commission
Topic: Improving the effective fulfillment of ODA (Official Development Aid) promises and creating reliable channels in developing and underdeveloped nations.
Country: The Republic of South Africa
Delegate: Bidushi Adhikari, Woodstock School



Previously, the Republic of South Africa has been receiving global help since the 1994, regarding ODA. Developed countries like Japan, US, Norway and Ireland have been providing ODA help to the South African government constantly. The country has also established associations with different kinds of organizations like World Bank, African Development Bank, the French Treasury and French Development Agency and the Japanese Bank. They have been continuously assisting South Africa concerning financial problems. The same year the Reconstruction and Development Programme set 8 main goals on helping the country like lifting the heavy poverty, raising living standards, developing human resource capacity, improving the country economically, ending discrimination in businesses many and others.
Currently there has been some destruction within the country. The country has lost profits, which means that many of the nurses, teachers, polices will be loosing their jobs while students won’t be able to go to school. Improvements can also be recognized. Japan, for instance, has recently extended the ODA loan to 6,084 million yen to improve the water mains and resources and also to maintain a hygienic surrounding within the black people’s habitations. Now, the loan given from Japan to South Africa reaches 20,145 million yen. The Development Bank of Southern Africa is helping out by making sure these necessities reach the poor’s home. UNDP has a mission in South Africa and that is to providing the poor people with daily supplies. They wish to achieve this by 2010. Ireland has also been another donor for South Africa. It has planned to spend 65 million Euros on South Africa from 2008 to 2012 for their development aid, and mainly to get South Africa out of poverty. Ireland is also previewing HIV and AIDS programme in South Africa to help people understand. G8 country leaders like President Barack Obama of US and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, are preparing to donate 50 billion US dollars to raise the whole of Africa out of deficiency.
Considering the facts stated in the previous paragraphs, it would be appreciated if organizations, like WHO and World Bank, gave in more money to help the economy develop. Organizations should make a deadline as to when they would want to accomplish their objectives. Steps of cleanliness should also be taken and taught to put a stop to the spreading of infections. Sanitized water and food should be provided from the government to make a healthy living for its citizens. Signs could also be put up regarding different warnings for safety and proper cleanliness. Doctors and nurses should be sent from the WHO to every part of the country to do a regular check up for any sign of diseases dispersal. Roads, railway stations and public buses should also be offered to make it easier for the South African people to move about, in reasonable costs. There should be more governmental schools than private so that all ranges of the South African communities can afford to educate their infants. A research has also shows that 21.7% of the people are unemployed so the UN should also present equal chances and verities of occupations to the people.