The United States federal government should pass and implement the African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007. Requisite funding guaranteed.
Contention 4: Solvency
Only the passage and implementation African Health capacity investment Act of 2007 can reverse the effects of brain drain and set up the infrastructure and send the needed medical personnel to overcome the crisis
Senator Durbin, 07
(“Bipartisan group of senators introduce African health capacity investment act of 2007” March 7, 2007. US FEDNEWS Lexis)
The AHCIA solves a lack of health care capacity by setting up the necessary infrastructure to retain, maintain, and pay for doctors in Africa.
Africa News 07
(“US Senate to tackle massive health worker shortage” AllAfrica, Inc. Africa News. March 7, 2007, Lexis)
The US must lead on health issues in Africa. The US is in a unique position to develop a paradigm in public health
Benatar and Fox 05
(http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/perspectives_in_biology_and_medicine/v048/48.3benatar.html)
Failure to build effective infrastructure and health care capacity makes all other efforts to address AIDS ineffective
Schrecker and Labonte 04
(http://www.ijoeh.com/pdfs/1004_Schrecker.pdf)
Dallas Jesuit HN – Affirmative – AIDS Policy
The USFG should substantially increase its public health assistance to so-called sub-Saharan Africa.
Debates about Africa and AIDS must be understood in the history of public health and health care. Only through a historical look can we understand the comlexitites of the present and the actions required in the future
FASSIN, professor University of Paris, 2007
(Didier, WHEN BODIES REMEMBER: EXPERIENCES AND POLITICS OF AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA TM) p xvii-xix
A public health approach and an examination of public health provide the framework for the historical look.
Gostin 2000 (Lawrence, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint) p 17
For the past thirty years the US has watched the AIDS pandemic ravage Africa and they have done nothing all because it was not a direct security threat or because it did not benefit our global image as a superpower. Four presidents have allowed this image to persist doing nothing until the threat began to overwhelm the west and only then was intervention conducted. The question we ask is why?
Fidler 2003 (spring 2003 6 J. Gender Race and Just. 97 lexis)
“as with previous sections, attempting a twenty-year analysis”
Understanding this history is necessary to overcome the political anesthesia tha has resulted from these singularly focused policies. Only a historical understanding of AIDS in Africa allows us to understand otherness and implement effective social responses.
FASSIN, professor University of Paris, 2007
(Didier, WHEN BODIES REMEMBER: EXPERIENCES AND POLITICS OF AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA TM) xii-xiv
Specifically sq efforts to increase ARVs and other programs ignores the root causes and conditions surrounding AIDS. The past limits the future unless we recognize that the history of AIDS and the present.
FASSIN, professor University of Paris, 2007
(Didier, WHEN BODIES REMEMBER: EXPERIENCES AND POLITICS OF AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA TM) 172-173
The United States must reexamine its policies and it must look to the root causes of issues. Only the examination of history can reverse the global inequalities of health.
Benatar and Fox 2005 (perspectives in biology and medicine 48.3)
“current and widening disparties in health around the world”
US must take a stand to address inequality by embracing a respect and ethic to the other. Failure to do so justifies genocidal extermination and global conflict as well as perpetuates the root causes of oppression, dehumanization and violence
Fasching 1993 The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima pg 155-157
The current world politics is centered on the notion of security, that has left billions dead justified genocides and will culminate in the extinction of humanity if left unchecked.
Der derian 1998 Columbia International Affairs Online, www.cionet.org/book/lipshutz/lipshutz12.html “the rapidity of change in the international theory”
Dallas Jesuit (All Teams) – Negative
LOST Good
Naval movility collapsing—LOST key to prevent this
Oxman 2007 ( Bernard H., Professor of law university of Miami school of law, CQ Testimony, 10-4-07, lexis)
“If the law of…costly to resist.”
Naval mobility prevents global WMD conflicts
Peele 1997 (Reynolds B., Lieutenant, USMC, The Importance of Maritime Chokepoints, Parameters, Summer)
“there are presently six significant…interests can be protected”
RRW Bad
Russia perceives guidelines of RRW as a return to the cold war and strikes the US
Nelson 2007 (Dr. Robert, Nuclear fact sheet, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:29NkMTCwYy0J:www.faithfulsecurity.org/pdf/UCS_Complex2030_factsheet.pdf-RRW-leads+to+nuclear+war&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us)
“The RRW program…would look like.”
This impact is the biggest existential threat
Bostrom, PhD, Faculty of Phiosophy, Oxford university, March 2002
(Nick, “Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards”, Published in the Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, March 2002. First version: 2001, http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html accessed August 28, 2007)
“A much greater…in the 21st century.”
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