Topic: HIV/AIDS
Country: Saudi Arabia
Delegate Name: Navid Hasan
School: Grand Rapids City High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Saudi Arabia position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
In 1983, scientists discovered the virus that causes AIDS. This was named the human T-cell lymphotropic virus-type III, later named to human immunodeficiency virus. This disease has spread to over a bit under 37 million people. This epidemic progressively kills the immune system, making the body increasingly more susceptible to diseases all around the spectrum. This disease, at the moment has no cure and is spreading throughout all of our countries. Many countries have resorted to quarantining people with the illness as to not spread the disease. This disease has been stigmatized by many, keeping distance from those who have contracted the disease from other people. People have been discriminated against due to their situations, due to the particular situations in which the disease is contracted. People are slut-shamed, called junkies, and baby-killers. Saudi-Arabia has decided to search for ways of diagnosing the population, and developing some way to help those who have contracted these diseases.
Saudi Arabia is focusing on the native people of the Kingdom. Expats, found to have contracted the disease, are to be put into solitary confinement until deportation. This is done to limit the increasing rate of HIV within our country, and to protect our own people from this disease. Saudi Arabia's ministries are sending out mobile units for HIV diagnosis and AIDS-related counseling. Many charities have been made such as the Saudi Charity Association for AIDS patients, which are raising money to fund research and aid to those who have these illnesses. Saudi Arabia is working ceaselessly to solve this issue, in order to save the 16.7% of people in Saudi Arabia having AIDS. This problem is affecting the present of Saudi Arabia, and if not stopped immediately, it will have a fatal effect on Saudi Arabia's future as well.
