Lexington TZ – Affirmative – South Africa ARV’s
Contention 1: Inherency
South Africa’s lack of business expertise, international collaboration, and technical proficiency devastates its ability to become a pharmaceutical world leader.
South African Department of Science and Technology, 7
(8/14, “INNOVATION TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY Ten-Year Plan for South Africa “ - http://www.nstf.org.za/minutes/plenary_minutes/10_YEAR_INNOVATION_PLAN14_AUGUST_2007.pdf)
Over the next decade... treatment and cure
Current US technical assistance promotes big pharmaceutical company’s monopolies over innovation. The US should shift its assistance to promote public health through affordable medicine.
Brant 3, writer for Oxfam International
(Jennifer, November, “Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich? How the United States keeps medicines from the world’s poorest”)
TRIPS-plus technical assistance ... the pharmaceutical industry.
The United States federal government should provide necessary technical assistance to South Africa to improve public health through increased access to medicines
Contention 2: Neglected Diseases
Bush just launched multiple initiatives to target neglected diseases increase trade with Africa
America.gov 2/20
(“Africa: Bush Explains Focus of Africa Military Command” - http://allafrica.com/stories/200802210027.html)
Bush also announced... growth and development.
US assistance is inevitable – however, failure to lower drug prices results in less effective and more expensive aid in the future.
Crook, Berkeley Journal of International Law, law review, 5
[“ARTICLE: Balacing Intellectual Property Protection with the Human Right to Health”, 25 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 524, Jamie Crook, 3-12-07] p. Lexis
One might argue ...from patent relaxation.
Lack of technical capacity devastates efforts to confront diseases neglected diseases
Salicrup et al. 4, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), Rockville, Maryland, United States
(Luis A., November, “Developing Health R&D Systems: Partnerships for Capacity Building in International Technology Transfer”)
The lack of ... and economic growth.
Emerging disease spread causes extinction
Butler 4, While I'm not a tropical biologist (my background is in math and economics), I have been studying tropical rainforests for more than a decade. More importantly, the information sources (peer-reviewed journals, respected researchers, etc) used by mongabay.com are credible. Further the site has been praised by a number of well-respected conservation biologists -- including Dr. Russell Mittermeier of Conservation International, Dr. Peter Raven of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, William F. Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Dr. David L. Pearson of Arizona State University, among others.
(“LOSS OF SPECIES FOR FOREST REGENERATION “ - http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0904.htm)
The emergence of ...around the world.
Technology exchange under a looser intellectual property model jumpstarts the South African pharmaceutical sector making it a regional supplier for neglected diseases.
Jiao, associate at Clifford Chance in New York, NY, will graduate from the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School in 2007, 2007 [Chenxi, “The Negative Effects of Pharmaceuticals in the South African Industry”, Lexis]
Also, the public... for neglected diseases.
The US has unique leadership and technical expertise to perform the exchange – essential to building global contacts and South African export capacity
Salicrup 4, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health, U.S Department of Health and Human Services
(Luis A., November, “Partnerships in Technology Transfer: An Innovative Program to Move Biomedical and Health Research from the Laboratory to Worldwide Application”)
The NIH/OTT and International ... stimulate economic development.
US stance on disease-related technological exchange in Africa sends a crucial global signal – critical to sustained international technical exchange and long term international promotion of public health over patents.
Morrison, the director of the Africa program at CSIS, 1 [J. Stephen, “The African Pandemic Hits Washington,” The Washington Quarterly 24:1 pp. 197–209, Project MUSE]
Efforts are needed... possible in Africa.
Pharmaceutical innovation spills over sparking a transition to a knowledge-based economy.
South African Department of Science and Technology, 7
(8/14, “INNOVATION TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY Ten-Year Plan for South Africa “ - http://www.nstf.org.za/minutes/plenary_minutes/10_YEAR_INNOVATION_PLAN14_AUGUST_2007.pdf)
The key objective ...innovation and growth.
South African economic success sets a model for other African countries.
Joseph 97,
Ambassador of the United States of America to South Africa
(James A, “United States - South Africa Relations” African Security Review Vol 6 no 3, 1997)
WHY SOUTH AFRICA?
When asked at... values and interests.
That ends the cycle of dependence solving poverty
T.W. Oshikoya and M. Nureldin Hussain, African Development Bank, "Information Technology and the Challenge of Economic Development in Africa", 7/18/06 http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:BLvx0S-zMLcJ:www.afdb.org/pls/portal/url/ITEM/F5411A55AFEA46BAE030A8C0668C6133+information+technology+development+africa&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
The recent advances... about to change"
Poverty causes extinction through the inevitable proliferation of insanely destructive devices
Carrico 6 Dale Carrico March 10, 2006 lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, PhD, Uc Berkeley, Visiting Faculty, Liberal Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Human Rights Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) amormundi.blogspot.com/2006/03/technology-and-terror.html
I believe that ... with destruction.
Poverty is comparatively more destructive than a nuclear war
James Gilligan, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, 2K edition, Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, p. 195-196
The 14 to 18 ... throughout the world.
Contention 3: South African Relations
Strict US IP policy devastates our relationship with South Africa – only changing our policy restores their trust.
Mbizwo 5, Reuters
(Alfonce, Apr 29, AIDS Drugs Dog U.S.-Southern Africa Trade Deal)
The United States ... for the Americas.
Small compromises and boosts to trade partnerships cement long-term relations between the US and South Africa.
Bhatia 6, US ambassador and deputy US trade representative
(Karan, April 18, “US committed to strengthening trade relationship with Sacu” - http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3206362&fSectionId=2516&fSetId=662)
This year presents... opportunities before us.
Boosting our partnership is key to access to strategic minerals and securing the Cape of Good Hope
Scott E. Siverson, attorney, Spring 1994, Pace International Law Review
[“COMMENTS: WHERE A TAX DISADVANTAGE LOOMS LARGE: INTEREST EXPENSE AND THE AMERICAN CORPORATE RETURN TO SOUTH AFRICA”, 6 Pace Int'l L. Rev. 353, 11-24-07] p. Lexis
As South Africa's... Cape of Good Hope.
South Africa is uniquely key to strategic minerals – the majority of them originate or are shipped from South African ports
David K. Shipler, 2/8/87, US Reliance on South African Minerals Cited, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDD1138F93BA35751C0A961948260
The State Department ... and transportation system.''
Strategic minerals are key to US economic and technological competitiveness
Gilda A. Jackson, USMC Major, 1988
[“Strategic Mineral- U.S. Vulnerability”, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1988/JGA.htm, 11-24-07]
Strategic minerals are ... critical strategic minerals.
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