UMKC SDI 2007 AIDS File
Louie & Todd
Everybody Got AIDS
AIDS Increasing
SSA Got AIDS-4
AIDS Kill Millions
AIDS Cause Extinction-7
AIDS Causes Infectious Disease
Infectious Disease Spread Impacts
AIDS Collapse Global Economy
AIDS Hurts Economic Growth-14
AIDS Cause Economic Decline
AIDS Hurts Development
AIDS Causes Poverty-18
Aids Root Cause Of Poverty
Poverty Hurts Public Health
Poverty Causes Conflict
AIDS Guts Education
AIDS Cause Nuclear War
AIDS Causes War-25
AIDS Cause Civil War
AIDS Causes Terrorism-28
AIDS Causes Failed States
AIDS Causes Genocide
AIDS Collapse Healthcare Infrastructure
AIDS Cause Orphans
AIDS Causes Food Shortages
AIDS Destroys Agriculture
AIDS Creates Gender Hierarchies
AIDS Causes Malaria
AIDS Causes TB Spread
AIDS Should Be Security Issue
***Mutations***
AIDS Can Mutate-41
AIDS Goes Airborne
Disease Mutation Cause Extinction
War Causes AIDS Mutations
AIDS Will Not Mutate
Aids Not Go Airborne
***Refugees***
AIDS Not Cause Refugess
Refugees Spread AIDS
Refugees Not Spread AIDS
AIDS Not Cause Extinction
***AIDS Answers***
AIDS Exaggerated
AIDS Not Cause Extinction
AIDS Not A Killer
AIDS Not Cause Failed States
AIDS Not Cause War
***Alt Causes***
Poverty Causes AIDS
AIDS Increasing
AIDS shows signs of slowing down
Joe De Capua [reporter] June 14, 2007(“World Bank report Says AIDS Epidemic Beginning to Slow in Many Parts of Africa,” Voice of America News, July 23, 2007, lexis-nexis, GB)
The World Bank says the mobilization of grassroots communities, condoms and anti-retroviral drugs is "beginning to slow the pace of Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic." The disease killed more than two million adults and children on the continent last year.The World bank has released a new report to assess its billion-dollar program set-up in 2000 " The Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program.It says besides better prevention, care and treatment, positive changes are being made in what it calls "social immune systems."That is, people changing their beliefs, perceptions and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS. Phil Hay is a senior bank advisor on hand for the release of the report in Kigali. "This new report, which we launched in Rwanda, was going back over the last six years and basically says what did a billion dollars buy? Now the mission of that program is to dramatically increase access to HIV prevention, care and treatment programs, with the whole idea of stopping the transmission of mother-to-child spread of the disease, especially looking after AIDS orphans," he says. The report says signs the epidemic is slowing can be seen in Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe, as well as urban Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi and Zambia. However, the report notes that Southern Africa "remains the epicenter of Africa's epidemic with unprecedented infection rates." The goal of the World Bank's Multi-Country AIDS Program is to offer "long term support to any country with a sound HIV/AIDS strategy and action plan." Hay says, "The country's voice is the unmistakable voice of authenticity. So,the bank is prepared to come in and help countries with their AIDS fighting efforts, but the country, as a down payment in a way, has to show it's serious. And a declaration of that seriousness is by coming up with its own plan."
AIDS is on the rise and doesn’t seem to be stopping
Craig Timberg [reporter] June 20, 2007(“Spread of AIDS in Africa Is Outpacing Treatment,” The Washington Post, July 23, 2007 lexis-nexis, GB)
The problem is not the medicine, which is among the most powerful in the world. In places such as the United States and Europe, where prevention programs were already succeeding against much smaller epidemics, the arrival of antiretroviral drugs was a turning point in the battle against AIDS.But in sub-Saharan Africa, prevention programs have mostly failed to curb the behavior -- especially the habit of maintaining several sexual partners at a time -- that drives the epidemic, research indicates.So while antiretroviral drugs have prolonged and improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Africans, millions more are being newly infected with a disease that is still incurable and, for most, terminal.In South Africa, AIDS deaths are projected to increase at least through 2025 despite steadily improving access to antiretrovirals, according to the Actuarial Society of South Africa. The prognosis on the rest of the continent is at least as bleak.Global health officials and AIDS activists once predicted that expanding treatment would bolster prevention efforts by encouraging more openness about the disease and making it easier to educate people on how to protect themselves from HIV.But among African countries with the most serious AIDS epidemics, the only one to report a recent drop in HIV rates is Zimbabwe, which has one of the region's smallest treatment programs.In neighboring South Africa, attention has shifted from attempting to prevent new infections to treating existing ones, said Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala, an anthropologist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a director of one of South Africa's largest AIDS organizations. In meetings, she said, maybe 10 minutes is spent discussing prevention for every hour focused on treatment.
SSA Got AIDS
25 million are infected in sub-Saharan Africa
Second Annual Report to Congress PEPFAR “ACTION TODAY, A FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW: The President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief” 2006
Preying upon our most innate of drives — reproduction — HIV threatens to depopulate the globe the way the Black Death did Europe 650 years ago. Globally, 38 million people are infected with HIV, with 25 million living in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2003, nearly five million people were infected with HIV worldwide — three million in sub-Saharan Africa. This represents the highest yearly infection rate since the beginning of the HIV pandemic— sobering evidence that we have not yet begun to effectively control this plague. While sub-Saharan Africa remains the epicenter of HIV infection, with four southern African countries experiencing adult infection rates over 30 percent(Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland), evidence indicates that in the near future, the focus will shift eastward toward the population behemoths of China and India, and northward into Eastern Europe and Russia.
120 million will be infected by 2030
Manly Daily, March 31, 2007,
WHEN global mortality projections were last calculated a decade ago, researchers were under the assumption that the number of AIDS cases would be declining. Instead, they are on the rise. Currently trailing fourth as a leading cause of death behind heart disease, stroke and respiratory infections, AIDS is on track to become No 3, according to researchers in a new report in the Public Library of Science's Medicine journal. Close to 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide and AIDS accounts for about 2.8 million deaths every year, although figures are expected to approach 120 million by 2030. "HIV is a complex infection that affects the very heart of one's immune system, and slowly causes deterioration of the immune system," said Dr Stephen Davies, a physician at the Sexual Health Clinic in Manly, a suburb where the numbers of those affected was reasonably low. "The consequences of that can be illness almost anywhere in the body. All the major systems of the body can be affected by it and the vast majority of untreated patients are going to progress and develop one or more serious illnesses that doctors call AIDS."
Aids will kill 97 million people by 2015 without action taken
Dr. Rene Loewenson (Director, Training and Research Support Centre in Zimbabwe) and Professor Alan Whiteside (Director of Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at University of Natal South Africa) 2001 “HIV/AIDS Implications for Poverty Reduction”, UNITED NATIONS DEVELPMENT PROGRAMME POLICY PAPER, Date Accessed 7/9/2007,
However, despite intensifying efforts focused onprevention and care,the epidemic continues to spread unabatedly, and as people infected by HIV become ill and die, its devastating impact is now being felt in the worst affected countries.Assuming that life-prolonging treatment will not be universally available in poor countries ‘overnight’,death rates from AIDS will continue to soarbefore leveling off. Recent estimatesfrom the UN Population Division show thatthe populationof the 45 most affected countrieswill be 97 million smaller in 2015 than it would have been in the absence of HIV/AIDS. Most of this loss is due tosharp increases in mortality among young adults.In the absence of national and globalaction to mitigatethe developmental impact ofHIV/AIDS, households, communities and civil society organizations will continue to bear the brunt of this tragic disaster. They are at the front lines of coping with the impactof HIV/AIDS, responding directly to the needs ofpeople and often working with little governmentsupport. Communities are mobilizing themselves,showing great resilience and solidarity, despite theirvulnerability to external shocks such as prematuredeath of their most productive members.
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 60% of all AIDS cases
Dr. Robert Rothberg(HarvardMedicalSchool) 2007AFRICA: PROGRESS & PROBLEMS -- AIDS & HEALTH ISSUES, , p. 14
While AIDS has spreadacross the globe since the first cases were identified in the early 1980s, the people ofAfrica – particularlysub-Saharan Africa – have clearly suffered the most. Of the more than 25 million lives lost worldwide to the AIDS pandemic by 2005, approximately 17 million were Africans, the majority from countries south of the SaharaDesert. Sub-Saharan Africans accounted for some 25.8 million of the estimated 40.3 million people living with HIV, according to the AIDS Epidemic Update published in December of 2005 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UN AIDS). Although Sub-Saharan Africa contains only about 10 percent of the world’s population, it accounts for more than 60 percent of all HIV/AIDS cases.
SSA Got AIDS
SSA is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS disaster
Madre Position Paper, Patent Rights Over Human Rights: African Women and US AIDS Policy, 2007
Patent Rights Over Human Rights: African Women and US AIDS Policy Thanks largely to the work of African public-health and social-justice advocates, growing numbers of people around the world know that sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of the AIDS pandemic: the majority of AIDS deaths worldwide are in Africa, where 20 million people have already died and nearly two-thirds of the world’s HIV-positive people live. Fewer people know that most Africans living with HIV/AIDS are women, and that young women are now being infected at a rate three to four times higher than young men. For many, this information is absorbed through a mesh of stereotypes that make human misery seem like a natural condition of life in Africa.
Millions of people are living with HIV/AIDS and the number is quickly increasing.
Joanne Mariner, “Drug Patents, Corporate Profits, andAids Deaths” November 26th, 2003 (accessed July 10th, 2007)
In their vulnerability to treatable diseases, the rich and the poor live in different worlds. Every year, millions of people in developing countries die of illnesses that they would likely have survived had they lived inEurope orthe United States. A key factor in the enormous global disparities in death rates is poor peoples' lack of access to needed drugs. Consider the case of HIV/AIDS.An estimated 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, 39 million of them in the developing world.India alone has at least 4.5 million people who are HIV-positive, and possibly many more.In the United States and other rich countries, since the advent of anti-retroviral drug treatment, AIDS has become a manageable disease, not a death sentence. But for the millions living with HIV in the developing world, prospects for effective treatment remain dim. At present, only a tiny minority of HIV-positive people in poor countries have access to anti-retroviral drugs. For the others, as well as some marginalized populations in rich countries, the cost of treatment remains prohibitively high.
AIDS is ravaging Africa, is must be stopped at all costs to avoid the death of millions.
Robert Rotberg and Victoria Salinas, “Needed: A Medical Peace Corps” Boston GlobeMay 10th, 2005
AS ANGOLANS die piteously of Marburg virus andAfricans everywhere suffer from HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and a host of other killers, too little attention is paid to the desperate nature of Africa's routine health services. Just as most African governments provide too few doses of antiretroviral medicines to their HIV populations at risk, so most African nations are far too poor to afford more than the bare rudiments of medical care. The wealthy healthy world must do far more for Africa, where every statistic reveals how fundamentally neglected Africans are.
AIDS Kill Millions
Aids will kill 71 million by 2010 without action taken
Dr. Rene Loewenson (Director, Training and Research Support Centre in Zimbabwe) and Professor Alan Whiteside (Director of Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division at University of Natal South Africa) 2001 “HIV/AIDS Implications for Poverty Reduction”, UNITED NATIONS DEVELPMENT PROGRAMME POLICY PAPER, Date Accessed 7/9/2007,
Increased deaths, fewer births and reduced fertility will slow or reverse population growth.Sub-Saharan Africa will have 71 million fewer people by 2010 because of AIDS, and populations may start contracting by 2003 in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The increase in widows, widowers and orphans will increase dependency. The number of orphans will rise from two to up to ten in every hundred children. By 2010, about 40 million children worldwide will have been orphaned by the epidemic.
50 million will die by 2020
Nicolas Cook Congressional Research Service, AIDS IN AFRICA, May 5, 2006
Based on aggregate estimates, about 27.5 million Africans have died of AIDS since 1982 at the start of the epidemic, including about 2.4 million or more in 2005. UNAIDS has projected that between 2000 and 2020, 55 million Africans will likely have lost their lives to AIDS, which has surpassed malaria as the leading cause of death in Africa and kills many times more people than Africa’s armed conflicts
AIDS will kill 100 million in Africa
Terry Leonard (Staff Writer) 2006 “AIDS epidemic hits 25 years” Wilmington Star, June 6,
It began innocuously, when a statistical anomaly pointed to a mysterious syndrome that attacked the immune systems of gay men in California. No one imagined 25 years ago that AIDS would become the deadliest epidemic in history. Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair. Its spread was hastened by ignorance, prejudice, denial and the freedoms of the sexual revolution. Along the way from oddity to pandemic, AIDS changed the way people live and love. Slowed but unchecked, the epidemic's relentless march has established footholds in the world's most populous countries. Advances in medicine and prevention that have made the disease manageable in the developed world haven't reached the rest. In the worst case, sub-Saharan Africa, it has been devastating. And the next 25 years of AIDS promise to be deadlier than the first. AIDS could kill 31 million people in India and 18 million in China by 2025, according to projections by U.N. population researchers. By then in Africa, where AIDS likely began and where the virus has wrought the most devastation, researchers said the toll could reach 100 million."It is the worst and deadliest epidemic that humankind has ever experienced," said Mark Stirling, the director of East and Southern Africa for UNAIDS.
AIDS Cause Extinction
AIDS causes extinction, sub-Saharan Africa is only the starting point **Gender Paraphrased**
Michael KibaaraMuchiri(Staff Member at Ministry of Education in Nairobi) 2000“Will Annan finally put out Africa’s fires?” Jakarta Post; March 6; L/N
The executive director of UNAIDS, Peter Piot, estimated that Africa would annually need between $ 1 billion to $ 3 billion to combat the disease, but currently receives only $ 160 million a year in official assistance. World Bank President James Wolfensohn lamented that Africa was losing teachers faster than they could be replaced, and that AIDS was now more effective than war in destabilizing African countries. Statistics show that AIDS is the leading killer in sub-Saharan Africa, surpassing people killed in warfare. In 1998, 200,000 people died from armed conflicts compared to 2.2 million from AIDS. Some 33.6 million people have HIV around the world, 70 percent of them in Africa, thereby robbing countries of their most productive members and decimating entire villages. About 13 million of the 16 million people who have died of AIDS are in Africa, according to the UN. What barometer is used to proclaim a holocaust if this number is not a sure measure? There is no doubt that AIDS is the most serious threat to humankind, more serious than hurricanes, earthquakes, economic crises, capital crashes or floods. It has no cure yet. We are watching a whole continent degenerate intoghostly skeletons that finally succumb to a most excruciating,dehumanizing death. Gore said that his new initiative, if approved by the U.S. Congress, would bring U.S. contributions to fighting AIDS and other infectious diseases to $ 325 million. Does this mean that the UN Security Council and the U.S. in particular have at last decided to remember Africa? Suddenly, AIDS was seen as threat to world peace, and Gore would ask the congress to set up millions of dollars on this case. The hope is that Gore does not intend to make political capital out of this by painting the usually disagreeable Republican-controlled Congress as the bad guy and hope the buck stops on the whole of current and future U.S. governments' conscience. Maybe there is nothing left to salvage in Africa after all and this talk is about the African-American vote in November's U.S. presidential vote. Although the UN and the Security Council cannot solve all African problems,the AIDS challenge is a fundamental one in that it threatens to wipe out [humanity]man.The challenge is not one of a single continent alone because Africa cannot be quarantined. The trouble is that AIDS has no cure -- and thus even the West has stakes in the AIDS challenge.Once sub-Saharan Africa is wiped out, it shall not be long before another continent is on the brink of extinction. Sure as death, Africa's time has run out, signaling the beginning of the end of the black race and maybe the human race.This evidence is gender modified.