Resolution: Brent Stephens '98


    Introduced By: Brent Stephens

    Representing:  Zimbabwe

    TITLE:         REDUCING INFANT MORTALITY RATE THROUGH MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

 1  WHEREAS the world's positive future depends on children growing up healthy and strong, and,

 2  RECOGNIZING that reducing infant mortality will aid in the positive development of the world's youth, and,

 3  HAVING DISCOVERED the United Nations is currently funding and administering programs aimed at the

 4       infant mortality rate worldwide, and,

 5  DECLARING the industrialized member nations have an average infant mortality rate of 6.8 per one

 6       thousand births compared with an average rate of 81 per one thousand births in several lesser

 7       developed nations, and,

 8  NOTING WITH APPROVAL with the fact that the rapid development and sophistication of medical facilities

 9       and equipment in the industrialized nations has aided in the reduction of the infant mortality

10       rate in those nations, and,

11  CONTEMPLATING that making modern medical technology more accessible to infants throughout the

12       world will greatly reduce infant mortality.

13  THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the United Nations, through the World Health Organization and

14       UNICEF, develop and fund programs to help member countries gain access to modern medical

15       facilities, equipment and training, and,

16  THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the United Nations set a goal of reducing world wide

17       infant mortality to rates no higher than 20 per one thousane births by the year 2005.

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