Woodward MN – Affirmative – Children’s Health Care
Plan— The United States federal government should provide the necessary assistance to non-abstinence based treatment and prevention programs in topically designated areas through the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
THOUGH JONATHAN SWIFT WROTE A MODEST PROPOSAL IN 1729, WE ARE SEEING EERIE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE U.S.’ CURRENT ATTITUDES TOWARDS CHILDREN AND THE PROPOSAL THAT SWIFT IRONICALLY OFFERED IN THE 18TH CENTURY, TO HAVE THE IRISH EAT THEIR CHILDREN. OUR SOCIETY HAS COME TO VIEW CHILDREN AS A WASTE OF OUR TIME. COMPLICITY WITH THIS NEW FORM OF POLICYMAKING ALLOWS ONE CHILD TO DIE OF AIDS EVERY MINUTE AND LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR ENDLESS DEATH AT THE HANDS OF IGNORANCE.
Africa News, 2005
(“Children: the Missing Face of Aids”, October 31, lexis)
UNICEF said that children affected by the disease…way we allocate and use resources."
AGE BASED EXCLUSION PERMEATES INSTITUTIONS AND PUTS GLOBAL LIFE AT RISK. WE MUST TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT THIS AVERSION TOWARDS ALTERITY AT THE EARLIEST AGE POSSIBLE
Gullette, Resident Scholar with the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis U, 2006
(Mararet Morganroth, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A NATURAL DISASTER, p. 115-6)
THE AMERICAN COMPLICITY IN MASS SUFFERING IS MANIFESTED THROUGH OUR IGNORANCE OF AIDS IN AFRICA. ACCEPTING OUR OBLIGATION DEMANDS AN END TO EXCUSES REGARDING INACTION—THE PLAN ESTABLISHES A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR THE WAY AMERICA VIEWS AFRICAN PROBLEMS.
Sachs, Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, 2002
(Jeffrey, BOSTON GLOBE, “AIDS overwhelms Africa, tests U.S. national morality”, 3/17, http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=27911&format=print)
AIDS has overtaken the hospital. Seventy percent…individuals and as a country.
THE AMERICAN SOCIAL LANDSCAPE PROVIDES US WITH A UNIQUE LENS TO VIEW THE EXCLUSION OF CHILDREN ON A BROADER SCALE. HOW WE VIEW CHILDREN ENABLES US TO TRANSFORM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE U.S. FROM APATHY TO INTEREST REGARDING OTHER INSTANCES OF EXCLUSION.
Fass, Professor of History at Berkeley, 2003
(Paula S., JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY, Vol. 36, No. 4, “Children and Globalization”)
[It is odd that children and childhood…youth complex" with a powerful symbolic fuse.]
THE AMERICAN POLITICAL ARENA PROVIDES US WITH A UNIQUE TIME TO ADVANCE ROBUST CHILDREN-FIRST POLITICS.
Schmitt, Senior Fellow at the New American Foundation, November 19, 2007
(Mark, THE AMERICAN PROSPECT, “’Kids First Politics’: Round Two”, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=kids_first_politics_round_two)
A couple of years later, a memo from pollster Stanley…fight between tax cuts and children, children will prevail.
TRANSFORMING GOOD INTENTIONS INTO POLITICAL COMMITMENTS IS CRUCIAL TO GENERATE MEANINGFUL AND GENUINE RESPONSES TO THE CHILD—WE MUST EMBRACE CHILDREN-FIRST-POLITICS TO REMOVE CHILDREN FROM THE BACKBURNER OF SOCIETY.
Bell, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard, 2006
(Peter, President of CARE USA, THE LANCET, “The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS”, December 1, lexis)
This growing political commitment could provide a crucial opportunity…ready to make common cause with all people committed to children's flourishing.
THE COMPLEXITY OF OUR OBLIGATION TO THE CHILD DEMANDS US TO TAKE A MORE NUANCED APPROACH TO ENGAGEMENT. TRADITIONAL METHODS OF COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO MEANINGFULLY ENGAGE WITH CHILDREN. THE IMPACT IS INFANTICIDE AND COMPLICITY WITH MASS DEATH.
Lokan, Professor of Law at the Quinnipac College School of Law, 1999
(Gregory, ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL, 31 Ariz. St. L.J. 1121, “Gratitude and the Map of Moral Duties Toward Children”, Winter, lexis)
Yet for all its virtues as an analytical…turns out to be objectively terrible.
UNILATERAL, SELF-BINDING COMMITMENTS CAN INTRODUCE AND PROMOTE NORMS OF BEHAVIORS BETWEEN STATES. THIS SELF-CONSCIOUS PROCESS OF ACTION BUILDS TRUST AND FACILITATES RADICAL CHANGE.
Wendt, Professor of Political Science at U of Chicago, 1992
(Alexander, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION, Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring)
SOLVENCY:
USAID ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN WITH AIDS IS CRUCIAL TO REDUCE TRANSMISSION AND ENSURE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY.
Peterson, Assistant Administrator of Global Health, 2002
(Anne, “USAID Works to Help Youngest Victims of HIV/AIDS; Agency funds 60 projects in 22 countries”, April 18, lexis)
The fundamental principle underlying…those affected and a vision of how to do it.
US ASSISTANCE IS KEY TO SPUR A GENUINE GLOBAL EFFORT TO PREVENT AIDS—INTERNATIONAL ACTION NOT DRIVEN BY AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FAILS.
Morrison and Moore, Executive Director of the CSIS Task Force on HIV/Aids and Senior Fellow with the Global Health Council, May 5, 2007
(Stephen and Allen, CSIS REPORT, “Advancing US Leadership on Global HIV/AIDS”, http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/070504_pepfar.pdf)
The White House and Congress should…multiyear plans based on reliable future funding flows.
USAID POSSESSES A UNIQUE STOCKOF EXPERTISE AND IMPLEMENTATION KNOWLEDGE—OPEN-ENDED ASSISTANCE FACILITATES THE INVOLVEMENTOF US CIVIL SOCIETY IN CREATING BOTTOM-UP ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Windsor, Executive Director of Freedom House, 2003
(Jennifer, WASHINGTON QUARTERLY, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Summer)
• USAID should be involved.
Ensuring strategic use of assistance also means bringing resource experts to the table. USAID is always the favorite target of…government’s greatest asset in promoting democracy.
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