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Groves GM – Affirmative – Zimbabwe – At-Large Team

Contention One: The Status Quo

The United States provides public health assistance to nearby countries but continues to ignore Zimbabwe
Plus News, ‘6 (Plus News is a service of the Integrated Regional Information Networks, a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, “HIV-positive people floundering as economy sinks,” http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=39584, 5/10)
Zimbabweans have had … as we can on a day-to-day basis".
And, the few drugs people do have are expired, risking drug resistance
Voice of America, ‘7 (“Zimbabwe's HIV-Positive Concerned About Expired Antiretroviral Drugs,” http://voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2007-11-26-voa45.cfm)
Some HIV-positive Zimbabweans .. advice of a qualified physician.

Thus we offer the following plan:

The United States federal government should export all necessary antiretroviral medication to the Republic of Zimbabwe for the treatment and prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome for use in the Republic of Zimbabwe.
Contention Two: HIV/AIDS

Lack of access to antiretroviral treatment in Zimbabwe has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths

Action Contre la Faim, ‘6
(“Zimbabwe Insight into the Humanitarian Crisis and Food Politics,” http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/foodse/060504acf.asp?sector=FOODSE, p10, 4/4)
The life expectancy has dropped … and the impact of HIV/AIDS.
The AIDS crisis in Zimbabwe has created massive food insecurity by crippling the agriculture sector. The most productive members of rural communities die early and traditional farming knowledge is lost.
Sokwanele Reporter, ‘5 (Sokwanele is a Zimbabwean civic action group, “Zimbabwe's food security threatened by HIV/AIDS and ZANU PF policies,” http://www.sokwanele.com/articles/sokwanele/ninthayofchristmas_3jan2005.html, 1/3)
Life expectancy at birth … for Zimbabwe's food security.
The agriculture industry is key to restoring Zimbawe’s economy – any other solution is doomed to failure
Timmer, ‘6 (Peter, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and Visiting Professor in the Program on Food Security and Environment at Stanford, “Why Zimbabwe Cannot Leapfrog Agriculture,” http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/zimbabwe/landreform/agriculture)
Suppose Zimbabwe's leaders … while dependent on food aid.
We’ll isolate two impacts:

First, stability

Restoring Zimbabwe’s economy is key to ensuring regional stability
The Herald, ‘7 (“Southern Africa: SADC Cannot Ignore Zimbabwe,”
http://allafrica.com/stories/200708220043.html, 8/22)
The major point being, … and ensure regional stability.

African instability escalates into nuclear war

Deutsch, ‘2 (Dr. Jeffrey, PhD in Economics from GMU, Founder of the Rabid Tiger Project (Political Risk Consulting & Research Firm), The Rabid Tiger Newsletter vol. 2 no. 9, November 18, http://www.rabidtigers.com/newsletterv2n9.html)
The Rabid Tiger Project … some people love to go fishing.
Second, biodiversity

Zimbabwe’s economic decline has hurt the environment

The economic meltdown has led … are spreading through Zimbabwe.
Every loss of biodiversity risks extinction – the fact that we can’t bring the species back after they are gone means that we must attempt to protect as many as possible
Chauhan, research scientist at Griffith University – Brisbane, ‘1 (Surender, Singh, Biodiversity, Biopiracy, and Biopolitics: The Global Perspective, p. 29-30)
Apart from Nuclear War … survival of humanity)

Contention Three: Hidden Sanctions

Our failure to provide Zimbabwe with health assistance to fight AIDS is politically motivated, condemning the innocent for the Government’s transgressions

Guni, ‘5
(Dr. Frenk, HIV/AIDS and public health policy expert and consultant, winner of the 2003 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights, recipient of the 2002 International Award for Leadership in HIV/AIDS Programming, has provided services for UNAIDS, WHO and many more the Organization of African Unity, US Department of Health and Human Services, USAID, Emory University Faculties of Public Health and Medicine, PACT, AED, The Synergy Project, The Futures Group, Doctors Concerned About AIDS, Global Council on Foundations, US State Department, the Global Fund for TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDS and, most recently, Georgetown UniversityÕs Institute for Health Care Research and Policy. Guni has served as an expert on various HIV/AIDS panels including the Human Resources Services Administration Clinical Experts on HIV/AIDS and Public Health, CDC Special Emphasis Panel of Reviewers, Indiana University School of Medicine-continued medical education & HIV/AIDS and Clinical Considerations for Rolling out HIV Anti-Retroviral Therapy, 3/30, “Death by Denial: A Case for Mugabe”, http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/2056.cfm)

Across Zimbabwe over a million … reform and redistributing program.

Placing sanctions on Zimbabwe to achieve political ends conceals the instrumentalization of people in euphemism, making nuclear war inevitable. Furthermore, wealthy people can evade the sanctions anyway.

Davidsson, (Revised in) ‘3
(Elias, editor for The Centre for Research on Globalization,The Mechanism of economic sanctions: Changing Perceptions and Euphemisms, http://www.aldeilis.net/english/images/stories/economicsanctions/debate.pdf, Original from March 2002)
In order to effectively … included in the trade ban.

The reduction of people’s health to mere calculation – using techno-rational modes of thought to evaluate who “deserves” aid destroys any value to life and justifies the worst atrocities of the Holocaust

Dillon 99 (Michael, Professor of IR @ Lancaster, “Another Justice” Political Theory, Vol. 27, No. 2. April, pp. 165)
Economies of evaluation … whatever exceeds measure."
Furthermore, sanctions do nothing to stop Mugabe’s power, they only give him the “foreign devil” he needs to retain power
Laurson, ‘7 (Jens F. “For Zimbabwe, the World Cup Beats the World Bank” June 15,
http://www.american.com/archive/2007/june-0607/for-zimbabwe-the-world-cup-beats-the-world-bank)
Western sanctions … advice from the bank.
Contention Four: Solvency
The WHO concludes that Zimbabwe’s HIV/AIDS distribution system could work with more resources
WHO, ‘5 (“SUMMARY COUNTRY PROFILE FOR HIV/AIDS TREATMENT SCALE-UP: ZIMBABWE,” www.who.int/hiv/HIVCP_ZWE.pdf)
In 1987, the government … care of people infected and affected by HIV.

Mugabe empirically allows unconditional aid when needed

The Telegraph, ‘5 (“Mugabe admits he needs food aid to rescue Zimbabwe,” 5/20, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/19/wzim19.xml)
President Robert Mugabe … help if it came without conditions.
We solve all your alt causes – lower drug prices are the internal link to alleviating all problems related to HIV/AIDS
Chien ‘3 (University of California at Berkely School of Law, “Cheap Drugs at What Price to Innovation: Does the Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceuticals Hurt Innovation?” Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Summer 2003) Lexis.

While high drug prices … pressing and realistic objective.

Studies claiming that patents are irrelevant are published by the pharmaceutical industry and are widely disputed by nonpartisan sources. Moreover, even if other barriers exist to treatment, the availability of generic drugs would spur necessary infrastructure development.
Ferreira, ‘2 (Fordham Law Review December, 2002 71 Fordham L. Rev. 1133 ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HIV/AIDS DRUGS: THE HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS OF MULTINATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONS, Lissett Ferreira, J.D. Candidate, 2003, Fordham University)
The drug industry denies … building of health infrastructure.

US action key – they control the rights to many important HIV/AIDS treatments

Weissman, ‘3 (Robert, editor of Multinational Monitor magazine and codirector of Essential Action, a corporate accountability group, Foreign Policy in Focus, “AIDS and Developing Countries: Facilitating Access to Essential Medicines”, http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol6/v6n06aids.html, 9/4)
Sixth, the U.S. should immediately … HIV/AIDS treatment pharmaceuticals.

The United States continues to favor big pharma by threatening trade sanctions if other nations do not comply with patent protection—your international counterplan will be denied by US action without the plan

New Internationalist, ‘3 (“The Great Health Grab,” Dinyar Godrej, November, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/Great_Health_Grab.html)
But patents are the icing on … manufacturing could be one way of breaking Big Pharma's stranglehold.
US policies for patent protection block other multilateral organizations from distributing ARVs as well—this patent law must be eliminated to allow ARV access
Outterson, ‘5 (Kevin, Associate Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law 2005, “Pharmaceutical Arbitrage,” Winter, 2005. 5 Yale J. Health Pol'y L. & Ethics 193)
With South Africa stymied, … last decade for access to cheap ARV therapy in Africa.

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