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Gulliver Prep MM – Affirmative – RFID’s – Version 2
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Gulliver Prep MM – Affirmative – RFID’s – Version 2Contention one: the markets drugs rarely reach their destination – in some areas up to 40% is diverted and resold at a price that puts the aid out of reach for the people that need it the most Thompson, 2k4 (Margery Boichel, Editor, “HIV/AIDS Drug Donations and Price Reductions in Sub-Saharan Africa ,” Proceedings, The Global Alliance for Women’s Health, Heather Lauver, Pfizer, Inc, “DRUG DIVERSION: WHAT ARE THE ISSUES, AND HOW DO WE ADDRESS THEM?") Product is projected to meet the needs …small part of the whole picture. the cut-throat market means counterfeit incidents are underreported Cockburn, Newton, Agyarko, Akunyili, and White, 2k5 (Robert is a writer and formerly a journalist with The Times, London, United Kingdom. Paul N. is at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. E. Kyeremateng is Chief Executive of the Food and Drug Board, Accra, Ghana. Dora is Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Lagos, Nigeria. Nicholas J. is at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom., “The Global Threat of Counterfeit Drugs: Why Industry and Governments Must Communicate the Dangers”, PLoSmedicine, March 1st, http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020100&ct=1) Chris Jenkins, a founding member …same market with similar drugs.” specifically drugs are diverted to european pharmaceutical companies which sell the drugs for nearly ten times the price Graham, 2k3 (John R., Director of pharmaceutical policy research at The Fraser Institute, “HIV Aid to Africa Will Encounter Obstacles,” The Heartland Institute, Health Care News) The lack of good governance in health care …the companies that invented the medicines. the grey market is the only channel by which diverters are able to sneak in fake drugs Yanku, 2k6 (Wyatt, research intern at the American Council on Science and Health, “Counterfeit Drugs: Coming to a Pharmacy Near You,” The American Council on Science and Health, August) How could this happen? The answer lies in the nature … supply that didn’t also involve drug diverters. These counterfeit drugs routinely poison the users, multiply the number of infected, proliferate the disease, and empirically makes current drugs ineffective Yankus, 2k6 (Wyatt, research intern at the American Council on Science and Health, “Counterfeit Drugs: Coming to a Pharmacy Near You,” The American Council on Science and Health, August, google) Counterfeiting is an especially serious problem …desperately-needed medicines. counterfeit drugs has empirically caused drug resistance – hiv/aids is on the brink of becoming completely drug resistant Morris and Stevens, 2k5 (Phillip and Julie, International Policy Network of London, “Counterfeit Medicine in Less Developed Countries: Problems and Solutions”, http://www.fightingdiseases.org/pdf/ipn_counterfeit.pdf) Drug resistance Perhaps one of the most …Saharan Africa [need a ref for the paucity of new ARVs]. AIDS MUTATION à EXTINCTION Souden, 2k (David, Research Fellow of Emmanuel College, http://darrendixon.supanet.com/killerdisease.htm) AIDS is the number one… the eventual extinction of the human race. Drug-resistant tuberculosis can easily proliferate and spread creating an unstoppable and untreatable global epidemic unless the US takes action to prevent the spread from and in Africa. Smith, Park, and O’Brien, 2k7 (Adam, David R., and James K., U.S. Rep.D-Tacoma, is a co-sponsor of the Stop TB Now Act of 2007, co-chairmen of the Washington State TB Advisory Council respectively, “We must step up our efforts against deadly TB strain”, Seattle Times Editorial Section, June 12, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht ml/opinion/ 2003743613_tb12.html) This very real and very lethal disease is …be an untreatable and unstoppable calamity. Outbreaks of resistant diseases cause extinction South China Morning Post, ‘96 (Hong Kong) January 4, 1996 SECTION: Pg. 15 HEADLINE: Leading the way to a cure for AIDS BYLINE: Kavita Daswani meets a scientist working on a super vaccine to fight AIDS and more deadly viruses yet to come, l/n) Despite the importance of …survival of the human race," he said. THUS THE PLAN: THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD MANDATE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ELECTRONIC PEDIGREE SYSTEM and a COMPREHENSIVE validate system FOR PHARMACEUTICALS SHIPPED TO the topically defined area. Contention two: solvency because of harms, rfid is inevitable in the status quo FDA, 2k4 (Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, February, “Combating Counterfeit Drugs: A Report of the Food and Drug Administration” http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/counterfeit/report02_’04.html) Despite the importance of …survival of the human race," he said. validate systems solve best and rfid fails – 8 reasons Barnes, 2k6 (Kirsty, DrugResearcher, “New approach to halt drug counterfeiting”, DrugResearcher.com, Breaking News on Drug Discovery, 12/04, http://www.drugresearcher.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=67041) ATS Automation Tooling has partnered with Tesa to …cussion with "a number of interested parties." Contention three: The last reason my brother loves me—Pre -emps interpretations of fiat as permanent and immediate should be reciprocal – non-recprocality is bad 1. kills ground – legitimizes unpredictable future fiat and counterfactuals – impossible research burden 2. jacks edu – turns topic specific edu into generic debates about timeframe and rollback 3. justifies severing out of the issue piced out of – sandbacking bad Our Framework – plan should be weighed against the alternative as a competing policy option 1. fairness – ignoring plan gives the negative an unfair advantage by eliminating the one structural equalizer to the block 2. education – key to critically comparing the value of discourse to policy options 3. You should paradigmatically ignore “Reps come first” arguments – if we win plan is good, then by definition, the representations are inseparable and good 4. Even if representations are important, the actors are still Africans who exist in this social reality and commit human acts, a focus on reps only ignores this interaction. Mbembe, 2k1 (Achille, Professor @ University of California, Berkeley “On the Postcolony” pg 6) The concepts developed in this volume start from … practices are, so to speak, imbued with meaning. POLITICAL DISENGAGEMENT DOESN’T MEAN THE NATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE GOES AWAY, IT MEANS IT WILL BE DOMINATED BY THE FAR-RIGHT AND COLLAPSE INTO FASCISM, CAUSING WARS AND TYRANNY Rorty 98 (Richard, Stanford Philosophy Professor, Achieving Our Country, pp. 87-94) If the formation of hereditary castes continues unimpeded, …insistent as a resourceful spook."10 We should use a self-interest model in order to prevent the spread of xdr-tb – additionally counterfeits uniquely cause all other forms of public health assistance to fail Allen, 2k6 (Terry, Staff Writer, “Counterfeit Drugs: Infected with Greed”, InTheseTimes.com, http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2845/) Consumers, however, have no way to know if their pill is crushed chalk …d flu if it evolves into a serious human threat. Utilitarianism is inevitable – default to our framework because they can’t solve for any reason util is bad Allison 1990 [Lincoln, prof political philosophy Warwick, The Utilitarian Response] And yet, if an idea can be compared to a castle…their consequences for people’s well-bring. all rights are predicated off the right to life heard, 1997 our framework for impact calculus is quality-adjusted life years – this is critical to preserve a value to life Schwartz, 02 (Lisa, “A Value to Life: Who Decides and How?” Chapter 6, Medical Ethics: A Case-Based Approach, www.fleshandbones.com/readingroom/pdf/399.pdf) Those who choose to reason on this basis hope that if …greatest amount of time for • the greatest number of people. There’s always value to life Frankl, 1946 Victor Frankl, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna, Man’s Search for Meaning, 1946, p. 104 But I did not only talk of the future and the veil which was drawn over it…find us suffering proudly—not miserably—knowing how to die. obfuscating the differences beteween benign rights based biopower and politics that attempt to maximize radical state power destroys an effective interrogation of social relations dickenson, 2k4 (Central European History, Vol 31, No 1) Any alternative will fail- disease securitization is inevitable. Moreover, it doesn’t solve the case- disease securitization is necessary to mobilize funding and resources that make implementation of the affirmative possible Kelle, 2k5 (Alexander, Lecturer in International Politics (MA, PhD Frankfurt) and Professor, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford Regime Review Paper No.2, Bioterrorism and the Securitization of Public Health in the United States of America - Implications for Public Health and Biological Weapons Arms Control, July, http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc/regrev/Kelle_SecuritizationinUS.pdf) This paper set up to trace the securitization of …to come to other states’ assistance. Finally, our evidence compares the risks of securitization with allowing people with diseases to die- securitization is a precondition for victims to resist biopolitics Elbe, 2k4 (Stefan, lecturer in international politics @ U-Essex, “The Futility of Protest” p. 30-31 http://www.stefanelbe.com/resources/ElbeISA2004Final.pdf) The securitization of AIDS may be …grass-roots activists and critical scholars. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 2.81 Mb. Share with your friends:
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