African Regional Bloc
Draft Resolution 1
Sponsors: African Regional Bloc
Pandemic Preparedness
Alarmed by the potential for a pandemic to spread throughout Africa, and that Africa is highly vulnerable to such an event
Deeply concerned by Africa’s challenges in dealing with a pandemic, including lack of resources and economic power
Recognizing the right to access to health care for all as outlined in the 1978 World Health Organization Declaration of Alma-Ata
Drug Availability and Access
1. Further declares to stockpile drugs and vaccines;
Control of International Migration
1. Resolves to control border migration by screening travelers entering and leaving African nations;
2. Considers possible selective closure of borders from nations viewed as high-risk;
Appealing to Foreign Aid
1. Declares to communicate with pharmaceutical companies to obtain the most cost effective treatment possible;
2. Declares to work with Johnson and Johnson in procuring subsidized materials for mobilizing a program aimed at limiting transmission;
3. Invites media from Western nations;
4. Revolves to collaborate with NGO’s (World Vision, Save the Children, Red Cross) as a means communicate locally with schools, attain support for educating health professionals addressing the needs of different groups, and use their networks;
5. Emphasizes the need to continue to refer to the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness Initiative;
6. Urges China, Australia, the United States, Canada, Western Europe and Scandinavia to contribute financial and human resource aid, including access to medication, health workers and training;
Preventative Measures
1. Has resolved to develop a step-by-step screening and treatment procedure widely-applicable for all of Africa;
2. Authorizes the establishment of a Centralized Communication Centre based in Nairobi, Kenya that receives reports from identified HCP and CHCW’s from each country and features a coordination team with representatives from all African nations;
3. Declares to establish centralized disease surveillance systems within each African nation that would in turn report to the Centralized Communication Centre under pre-developed reporting guidelines;
4. Endorses communication with Health Care Professionals and Community Health Care workers for the purposes of identifying diseases, monitoring airborne transmission, recognizing symptoms, making preventative measures, and reporting guidelines;
Disease Control in light of Poor Health Infrastructure
1. Resolves to recruit military and paramilitary forces to aid in detection, quarantine, and health resource distribution efforts;
2. Authorizes the establishment of healthcare units at the borders to better facilitate distribution of healthcare services to vulnerable populations (refugee, rural, and those that are difficult to track);
3. Notes Western African nations’ pledge to provide human resource aid to other African nations currently managing disease outbreaks, in exchange for ongoing advice and personnel training regarding effective containment methods that are proving most successful in those nations.