Uganda is the global model for AIDS prevention policies – if it fails, the world fails. Cohen and Tate, March 2k5
Jonathan Cohen, researcher in the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program & Tony Tate, researcher in the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch, “The Less They Know, the Better Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda”, March 2005 Vol. 17, No. 4
Uganda is unique … AIDS pandemic.
Advantage 2 – Structural Violence
First, US assistance policy is implemented based on the notion that AIDS causes economic problems and entrenches people into lives of poverty. Useche and Cabezas 2005
(Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas | December 1, 2005, Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP), “The Vicious Cycle of AIDS, Poverty, and Neoliberalism”, http://americas.irc-online.org /am/2965)
World Bank Director … a better future.”
This is extremely true of US policy in Uganda where AIDS is a disease of poverty – Abstinence Only approaches only help fuel this trend and deny existence of entire populations Human Rights Watch 2005
(The Less They Know, the Better:Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs in Uganda, March 2005 Vol. 17, No. 4, http://hrw.org/reports/2005 /uganda0305/uganda0305.pdf)
Abstinence-only programs … to hear about them.”
AIDS exacerbates the conditions that sustain poverty and erodes civil society. This results in government abuse of power, political instability, and conflict.
US Institute of Peace – 1 (10/15, web)
Finally, in highly affected regions, …infection curves ."
And, Poverty is the equivalent of an ongoing nuclear war and is the root cause of war; more people have died from poverty than all wars combined. Gilligan 96
(James, Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for the Study of Violence, and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence, “Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes”, p. 191-196)
The deadliest form …cause to effect.
The United States federal government should fund condom social marketing programs in the Republic of Uganda Observation Two – Solvency Past successes in Uganda prove Condom Social Marketing programs are the best way to combat HIV/AIDS (http://www.uaps.org/journal /journal18v1/risk.pdf)
Uganda is one … about AIDS (Finger, 1998).
Furthermore, USAID Condom Social Marketing programs led to the massive reduction of HIV/AIDS infections in Uganda before the Bush Administration took over World Health Organization, 2000
(Health a Key to Prosperity: Success Stories in Developing Countrieshttp:www.who.int /inf-new/aids2.htm)
Uganda's success … between 1989 and 1995.
And, Condoms are seven times safer than not using them. Reproductive Health Matters, 2006, 14(28):6–16
Condoms … long time coming.
The 2008 Foreign Aid Spending Bill allows the President to waive PEPFAR abstinence spending requirements Medical News Today, June 26 2007
http://www.medicalnewstoday .com/articles/75049.php
The House on Thursday …(Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 6/6).
United States Policy Key – Uganda demonstrates that internal policy in countries shifts toward the moral economy of abstinence only because of US influence Robinson 2007
Mark Robinson, M.A. in Medical Anthropology from University of Chicago and B.A. in linguistics from Northwestern University and is presently a graduate student in the Divinity School at the University of ChicagoDivinity School, University of Chicago 2007 http://cas.uchicago.edu /workshops/rrtpm/markr.doc
Uganda’s moral economy … and economic interests.
The existence of the restrictions on U.S. aid guts the effectiveness of aid from other countries AVERT 7-5-07
http://www.avert.org/pepfar.htm (AVERT is an intl AID’s charity)
In pursuit of rapid results, … address them at all."
Observation Three – Decision Calculus The negative will try to convince you that preventing large-scale war should be the foremost concern in our decision calculus---this framing distorts ethics into a crisis-driven politics of war---distorting genuine ethics and creating a sphere where the constant threat of war becomes inevitable in order to sustain the militaristic nature of the status quo. Cuomo 96
activist, artist, and Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of The Philosopher Queen: Feminist Essays on War, Love, and Knowledge-- (Chris, “War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence!” hypatia, 1996, Proquest,)
Ethical approaches …war and militarism.
Political predictions are inaccurate and lead to paralysis – systemic harms are the only justification for political action. Menand, Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard, 2005
(Louis, “Everyone’s an Expert,” NEW YORKER http://www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles /051205crbo_books1)
Tetlock also has an … draw: Think for yourself.
Major war is obsolete – multiple factors prevent escalation and conflict. Mandelbaum, American foreign policy professor at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, 1999
(Michael, “Is Major War Obsolete?”, http://www.ciaonet.org/conf /cfr10/)
My argument says, tacitly, … increasingly, like that.
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