Resolution 2.1 High Risk

Draft Resolution 1.1

Sponsors: Botswana, Canada, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, UK.

Signatories: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Finland, Greece, Iraq, Jamaica, Republic of Korea, Morocco, Russia, Turkey, USA, Venezuela

Addressing the Pandemic Preparedness Crisis for High-Risk Groups:

Pandemic Preparedness Plan for a Unified World

The General Assembly,

Deeply concerned that marginalized groups are often most vulnerable to diseases and emerging pandemics;

Recognizing that improper medical care in these groups leads to drug regiment non-compliance and can exacerbate drug resistance and other health care issues;

Bearing in mind that such issues are bound to have global implications;

1. Urges the implementation and maintain culturally and linguistically appropriate  educational and awareness campaigns about the pandemic (e.g. symptoms, incubation period, modes of transmission, methods of prevention, efficacious medical treatment) particularly targeting high-risk groups including, but not limited to, indigenous communities, isolated rural populations, refugees, people with HIV/AIDS, and other high-risk populations;
2. Recommends member nations to provide necessary primary and preventative health care to affected regions which includes but is not limited to providing medical practitioners, efficacious drugs and/or vaccines and face masks, and which especially targets the most susceptible populations, as previously mentioned;

1. Urge collaboration between WHO, related NGOs and risk group community leaders to:
   1. Overcome any barriers to health including health care workers/medications reaching these sites;
   2. Promote culturally-appropriate education and health care professionals for health promotion and protection (e.g. guarantee food safety, community health);
   3. Administer medication and health care in a culturally-appropriate manner;
   4. Provide health care training to appropriate members of risk group communities;
   5. Facilitate the sharing of different nations’ risk group experiences to help improve access to services through an intercultural approach;

1. Further Urges an efficient communication system with leaders of the above-mentioned high-risk groups to ensure the appropriate information is relayed to the members of the communities and to allow for transparency in the developments of the pandemic;

1. Calls upon member nations to formulate a program of relief for high-risk groups encompassing training members of these communities to be able to administer the drugs and appropriate medical care by trained health professionals, such as nurses, who will remain temporarily in the community to provide support for the time of crisis, as well as supplying culturally-appropriate medical commodities in order to build a sustainable infrastructure for these communities;

1. Urges nations to make use of current medical care and financial relief programs already in place for high risk populations vulnerable to other diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and others, in order to reduce expenditures and addition of healthcare workers on the field;