EU CP
EU is best
Health Insurance and Law weekly, December 12,2004
" The WHO……public health challenges"
The EU experience and foreign assistance objectives make it uniquely suited to solve public health problems in SSA
EUDPK 2006
" This assertion is…….make this happen"
AFRICOM DA 1NC
AFRICOM stand-up will be low profile now, due to poor U.S. relations with Africa
Inside the Army, November 19, 2007
In a bid to counter perceptions …….not to have too high of a profile."
The plan serves as a Trojan horse that allows the DOD to implement a high-profile AFRICOM
The Herald, 1-8-2008, reported by Africa News
News is that one of the …..it becomes Africa's policeman.
High profile AFRICOM sets a model that collapses African civil-military relations, and collapses democratization
Herman Cohen, former Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, July-August 2007, Journal of International Peace Operations, http://ipoaonline.org/journal/images/journal_2007_0708.pdf
There is a potential downside, however, that …..and developmental policies.
Democratic backsliding causes conflict, economic collapse and the failure of development, turning the case
Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, 1998, Hoover Digest, http://www.hooverdigest.org/983/diamond.html
THE PROBLEM
The common root cause ….means a democratic political system, to one degree or another.
Politics – Law of the Sea
LOST has widespread support and is expected to pass
Scott Hoffman 1-4-08 UNCLOS
" As the Bush Administration…….support than opposition"
US Senate panel supports LOST bill and will pass to ensure ocean navigation, oil resources etc
Kevin Drawbaugh, 1-3-08, Reuters
" A senate panel voted…..general of the navy"
Cap will be key
Phyllis Schlaffly , freerepublic.com, 9-26-07
"with all the……Law of the Sea treaty"
Passage prevents wars, ec collapse and ocean destruction
Hamilton, 8-27-07 www.indystar.com, 8-27-07
" Next month, the Senate……ratify this treaty"
Observation One – Bush’s Failed Policy Vision Prior to the Bush Administration, Uganda had an effective prevention strategy to tackle AIDS – But since the inception of the PEPFAR program there has been a reliance on Abstinence Only programs instead of overall prevention causing massive increases in AIDS cases throughout Uganda and the freezing of Condoms programs through the country 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
By the end of the twentieth century…and behavior change.” (Kastaye, 2005)
PEPFAR has hijacked condom social marketing programs in Uganda. Feuer, April 2004
Cindra, "Can PEPFAR Save the Most Vulnerable?" amfAR AIDS Research, http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin /iowa/td/feature/record.html ?record=119
Before PEPFAR…said Jacobson.
Finally, scientific data proves that PEPFAR’s abstinence programs are less effective than condom programs Nolen 2006
STEPHANIE NOLEN in August 19, 2006 graduate of the University of King's College and the London School of Economics, in Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association with support from CIDA, "Deadly Disease and Human Suffering “U.S. gets this war right;”
As one leading U.S. activist … most evidence.
Uganda shows that U.S. abstinence-only programs have doubled youth HIV infections Kalinaki May 15, 2007
Daniel Kalinaki in May 15, 2007, Tuesday, “THE CONDOM DEBATE”, is a Ugandan journalist with The Monitor newspaper, accessed 6.27.2007 LN,
Uganda's government … Uganda Aids Commission.
Uganda’s abstinence only approach is one example of increase AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa Ireland, 2006
Doug, TomPaine.com, Veteran Political Analyst, December 1, 2006, (http://www.tompaine.com /articles/2006/12/01/bushs _other_losing_war_aids.php)
The world …a killing field.
Without effective intervention, the AIDS pandemic will increase at even greater rates, creating more than 36 million new infections in the next few years LaFraniere, June 6, 2007
Writer for the New York Times, June 6, 2007. LN.
If current trends … Gates Foundation.
AIDS kills more ever year than the two world wars combined Hunter 2003
Susan Hunter, an independent consultant to certain agencies of the United Nations (WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF), has already published Black Death: AIDS in Africa[1], considered to be one of the best books to have been written about HIV/AIDS, BLACK DEATH: AIDS IN AFRICA, 2003, p. 7
Even if a cure … spreading like wildfire.
The combined lethality and subtly of AIDS makes it the most devastating disease in world history; it kills 6,000 Africans daily, and 2.8 million annually. Mathiu 2K
Mutuma, AFRICA NEWS, July 15, http://209.85.165.104/search?q �36�cache:6tm_9OIp4c8J:www .healtoronto.com/mbeki/Kommenta re.rtf+Every+age+has+its +killer.+But+Aids+is+without +precedent.+It+is+comparable +only+to+the+Black+Death+of +the+Middle+Ages+in+the+terror +it+evokes+and+the+graves+it +fills.+But+unlike+the+plague, +Aids+does+not+come+at+a+time +of+scientific&hl�37�en&ct=clnk &cd=1&gl=us
Every age has its killer…hopelessly in jeopardy.
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