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Ladies and gentlemen:
I have submitted my revised "Act to Cure Arthritis" proposal to the UN.
I would sincerely appreciate any support you could give it.
Voting ends on Thursday, June 3.
Thank you.
NewfoundCana



To Cure Arthritis.

We, the Member states of the United Nations:

Do agree that Arthritis is a debilitating and destructive disease that plagues millions of people worldwide of all ethnic and social backgrounds, men, women, boys and girls of all ages.

Do agree to establish within the United Nations an agency committed to the discovery of a cure for Arthritis in it’s many forms. This agency, to be titled “The United Nations Agency for the Cure of Arthritis”, or “UNACA”, will be coordinated by a director and 5 sub-directors to be appointed by the Secretary General for 3 year terms. The director will coordinate research from a central base, with the 5 sub-directors heading 5 regional sites. The sites for the main base and 5 regional sites will be determined during initial program setup. UNACA will be comprised of 500-750 scientific and medical personnel as decided by the director and sub-directors, based on the submission of names from the Health Regulatory bodies of individual nations that wish to contribute resources and funds.

Do agree to share information accrued so far in regards to genetic, causal and empirical tests and discoveries in the pursuit of a cure for Arthritis. This includes the designs and trial study information of drugs developed in the race for a cure to this date. All patents currently in force shall be transferred to UNACA, with a one-time fee to be paid to the patent holder, to be decided by an unbiased arbiter, appointed by the Secretary General. All information concerning individuals will be kept in utmost confidence and under tight security.

Do agree that when a cure is found, UNACA will distribute to all UN member nations who contributed resources and/or funds to UNACA, the information to create and administer the cure. UN members, who did not contribute resources and non-UN nations, will be given access to the information upon a monetary contribution to UNACA to help offset the agency’s budget, to be negotiated between the individual nation and the director and sub-directors. In the case of other countries, a panel of 5 arbiters, made up of UN delegates of original contributing nations to UNACA, will decide if the countries can qualify for the cure under a “Faint Hope” clause. The “Faint Hope” clause stipulates that if a country is unable to contribute resources or money to UNACA due to lack of development, resources, medical knowledge or hardships suffered because of natural disasters, UNACA will use its resources to produce and deliver the drug(s) to the Health Regulatory bodies of those nations.

And lastly, do agree to implement UNACA within 18 months of the final approval of this proposal, as voted on by the member nations of the UN.

These measures are taken for the betterment of all mankind, as anyone at anytime may fall prey to this disease.

Esteemed colleagues.
I would like to thank those of you who have supported my proposal at the UN thus far, and encourage fellow delegates who have not yet taken the opportunity to look at and support the proposal to do so as soon as possible.
Thank You
The Dominion of NewfoundCana

The lobby continues! :)

Do you know what arthritis is? It is where the cartilage around the ends of the bones wears away making it so it hurts to move, the only cure would have to be a surgery and artificial cartilage.

Do you know what arthritis is? It is where the cartilage around the ends of the bones wears away making it so it hurts to move, the only cure would have to be a surgery and artificial cartilage.

I suffer from psoriatic arthritis.
It affects my feet, ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers with swelling and tenderness.
Arthritis is not only caused by wear and tear.
There are gene studies which suggest hereditary links and a predisposition to get the disease.
Here's a question. Is Juvenile Arthritis caused by wear and tear? Of course not.
My arthritis is controlled be medication, and it will be cured by medication, NOT surgery.

Double post.
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You have my support, NewfoundCana! Good luck!

This proposal is meaningless. Arthritis isn't a "disease" neither is cancer... it's the mentality of treating as such that prevents any advancement in solving the problem. Both are not diseases, they are defects, neither is cause by an invasion of a foreign body into the system, in cancer it is a bad mutation of cells in the body, in Arthritis it is a breakdown of the cartlidge and fluids in the joints.. neither are invasions by foreign bodies. And therefore cannot be solved through the same means as treating diseases.

Secondly, if it were to pass, we would have no way of fulfilling, through our own lawfull power, in turning over patents... as all patents in our free-market economy are owned by the owners. Tekania has no imminent domain laws, and such property rights to the owners is protected in the Common Law, and we are unable constitutionally to fulfill such an obligation as we have no rights to force the owners to sell to us, or anyone.

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"Qui Desiderant Pacem Preparate Bellum"
("Those who desire peace, prepare for war.")

Arthritis isn't a "disease"

A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person.

I forgot to put this link for those of you who might like a little info on arthritis. It gives a definition of the disease.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Arthritis

We're just a lobbying.... :D

And, for the record, surgery is not an option for me and my arthritis. Medication reduces the swelling, and my fingers are slightly deformed, and no amount of surgery will correct it. Surgery will not correct the fusion of vertebrate in my neck either. The only way to correct these afflictions is to make sure they don't happen, which requires a cure, not a scapel.

And for those of you swayed by Tekania's assertion that Arthritis is not a disease:
"Arthritic diseases include rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, which are autoimmune diseases"
and
"An autoimmune disorder arises from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. The causes of autoimmune disorders are still obscure, and most of these disorders are probably the result of multiple circumstances: for example, a genetic predisposition triggered by an infection. "

Just thought I would try to clear that up.

Cabinia previously voiced its objections to this bill, and they have not changed:

1) That there are other diseases, particularly life-threatening ones, more deserving of such an entity than arthritis.

2) That this, especially coupled with the AIDS initiative the UN passed previously, sets a dangerous precedent that leads to the UN taking over the medical research business, a massive overstepping of its responsibilities.

3) That centralized research is far from ideal, as a centralized location leads to centralized authority which leads to an established orthodoxy of beliefs that will hinder research more than it helps it... whereas, it is much easier to keep researchers thinking outside the box if we never build the damned box in the first place.

And a new objection:

4) That private industries and publicly funded research activities into arthritis alike will find themselves shut down globally, not just in UN member states. Private industries will find it impossible to compete with the UNACA, and public sentiment will turn against funding local efforts when the UN is already doing it on a larger scale. The net result will be a global reduction in man-hours and resources spent on this disease, not an increase.

The government of Cabinia thus strongly cautions well-intentioned champions of the arthritic against hoisting themselves by their own petards.

I'm all for it, good luck.

Desdemona,
UN representative,
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