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December 15, 2006
Homework for Winter Break
You don't have any homework that is due the day that you return. You should, however, use some time over break to begin researching your part for the Middle East Peace Conference. Use some of the websites that I provide below to start researching. Do a Google search on your person. Research on Lexis-Nexis. It would be excellent if you could look at the Position Paper questions and spend a few hours reading and researching. If you run into any problems, feel free to email me. I will be checking over break.
Make sure to relax and have fun, too!
Ms. Murr
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December 13, 2006
Wednesday, December 13th: Introduction to the Middle East Peace Conference
Introduction to the Middle East Peace Conference
You will receive a copy of the directions for this assignment in class. You should read through this assignment sheet very carefully. It tells you exactly what you will be doing over the course of the next couple of weeks. After you have read it, we will talk about it as a class.
Bidding for Assignments
What follows is a list of roles for the Middle East Peace Conference. I will give a brief description of each part in class. Then I will hand out roles and there will be a short “trading period” during which you can trade with another student for a different part.
U.S. President George Bush:
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair:
Russian President Vladimir Putin:
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak:
Iraqi Prime Minister Jawad al-Maliki:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
Syrian President Bashar Assad:
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud:
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas:
Hezbollah Leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert:
Jordanian King Abdullah II:
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah:
Template for the Position Paper
The Position Paper is the written part of the Middle East Peace Conference assignment. It is not an essay, but it is six paragraph answers to six questions. The questions and directions for this assignment are linked here.
Resources for the Middle East Peace Conference
What follows is a list of resources that you can use to complete your research for this assignment. I would look at all of these resources before the end of the quarter. Some will be more or less helpful depending on your assigned part.
This is an excellent source of information. It has country descriptions, leader descriptions, articles, maps and timelines that EVERY conference participant would find helpful. You might even want to start your research here.
The Online NewsHour Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This site has descriptions of past attempts to make peace in the Middle East and descriptions of the key players in the conflict. It doesn’t have as much information as the BBC website, but I think everyone could find this site helpful.
The Online NewsHour Coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah Clash
This site provides a lot of information about the latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. The archives section of this site might help each of you determine your character’s position on the latest round of fighting.
The Online NewsHour Coverage of Iran
This site focuses on the current state of Iran. This will, of course, help the Ahmadinejad character in both classes, but it might help other characters determine how to deal with Iran.
The Online NewsHour Coverage of Iraq
This site focuses on the current state of Iraq. This will help the Maliki character, but it might help other characters determine how to deal with Iraq.
The United States State Department Page on the Middle East Peace Process
This site will help the characters from the United States, Russia, Britain and the United Nations (The Quartet), but all characters should look at it. This describes the Quartet’s response to the crisis in the Middle East.
The Guardian’s Special Report Site on the Conflict in the Middle East
This site contains numerous newspaper articles about the latest issues in the Middle East. Look here for very up-to-date information. The Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanese and Israeli characters may find this site especially helpful.
DON'T FORGET TO USE LEXIS-NEXIS. This is easily the best database available to you when working to find information about your people. You should search in the "news" section when doing your research.
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December 12, 2006
Tuesday, December 12th: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Convenes
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
We will meet to discuss the three options for action in Iraq. Be ready to discuss your option and to question the other two options. See yesterday's entry if you can't remember what group you are in.
Homework
Your Iran and Iraq quiz is tomorrow. It will cover everything that we did on Thursday, Friday, Monday and today. In other words, you have to study all of your notes and the activities that we did about Iran and Iraq. The quiz will be 15 points and you can't use notes.
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December 11, 2006
Monday, December 11th: Iran and Iraq
Cities Quiz
Good luck!
Iran Negotiations
You will attend the Nuclear Proliferation Conference today. Be prepared to negotiate on behalf of your country. We will complete some pre-negotiations meetings and then two rounds of negotiations. Good luck.
Iraq Introductions
You will take a few notes on Iraq so that you have some background information for our Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting tomorrow. Download the lecture guide here.
Homework
Your physical geography quiz is tomorrow. Don’t forget to study.
If you didn’t get a chance to do your Iraq readings over the weekend, do them tonight. Also, work on what you would like to say during your testimony tomorrow. Make sure that you understand the advantages of your assigned option and have some questions about the other options ready to go.
Option One
Lauren B, Jake G, Emma I, John N
Michelle A, Sarah D, Joe J, Vanick N, Maggie W
Option Two
Naomi B, Elle G, Gus L, Rovena M, Paloma S
Julie B, Nathan J, Karen , Nic M, Manila X
Option Three
Sarah C, Maggie F, John J, Aaron M, Zoe Q.
David C, Carolyn D, Tess F, Ellen L, Jack S.
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December 8, 2006
Nuclear Proliferation and Iran
You will attend the Nuclear Proliferation Conference today. Be prepared to negotiate on behalf of your country. We will complete some pre-negotiations meetings and then two rounds of negotiations. Good luck.
Homework
Your cities quiz is on Monday. Don't forget to study.
You need to read the executive summary for the Iraq Study Group Report and the "The U.S. in Iraq: Confronting Policy Alternatives" packet. On Monday, you will work with your peers to prepare your testimony for your appearance before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. You will need to defend one of these options (I will tell you which one on Monday) and attack the other options. You will be grade on the quality and accuracy of your testimony.
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December 7, 2006
Thursday, December 7th: Iran and the Axis of Evil
Stereotypes and Islam
We will finish our discussion from yesterday by trying to dispel some of the stereotypes that we discussed. Use the site linked to yesterday's entry to complete part of your research.
An Introduction to Iran
We are going to talk a little bit about Iran today. Here is the lecture guide. We will then discuss what we read about Iran.
Homework
Tomorrow we are going to have, what we are calling, an Iranian Nuclear Proliferation Conference. This conference will be good practice for the Middle East Peace Conference you will have at the end of the unit. You have been assigned to a country. Tonight, you will need to do the reading associated with the country. While you are doing the reading, you will want to fill out the reading guide. The completed reading guide will help you tomorrow as you negotiate during the conference.
Everyone should read the following article. Make sure that you read this article first.
Q&A: Iran Nuclear Standoff
Article for the United States:
The Likely U.S. Course on Iran: Go Slow
Article for Iran:
Iran Vows Won't Cede 'An Inch' in Face of Intimidation
Article for Israel:
Israel Raises Profile in Iran Fray
Article for European Union:
Key Powers to Seek Iran Sanctions
Upcoming Quizzes
Your countries quiz is tomorrow. Don't forget to study!!
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December 6, 2006
Wednesday, December 6th: An Introduction to the Middle East
The Middle East: What do we know?
We will begin your lesson today by brainstorming about what you know about the Middle East. I will give you a blank piece of paper and ask you to make a concept map with the Middle East being the central concept. Then, we will create a class concept map to get a feel for where we are at.
Islam: What we don’t know.
Up until a few years ago, many Americans ignored this faith. 9/11, however, brought Islam to the forefront of many discussions in the United States. Unfortunately, many stereotypes exist about this faith and about followers of this faith. Today, we will develop a list of those stereotypes and then try to debunk those stereotypes using a short reading and a website linked here.
Homework
Just as you did during the Africa unit, you will need to complete three geography assessments during the Middle East unit. I will hand you the assignment in class (Sorry! You can't download it this time.).
The countries quiz will be on Friday, December 8th.
The cities quiz will be on Monday, December 11th.
The geographic features quiz will be on Tuesday, December 12th.
You will not need to turn in your practice map for this unit.
Read the timeline about Iran that is linked here. Please bring one question about the timeline to ask the class. In addition, bring notes highlighting what you think are the most important events in the timeline and why (have at least 3). The notes do not need to be in complete sentences. Be prepared to discuss the article. Spend between 25 and 35 minutes on this assignment.
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December 4, 2006
Monday, December 4th: Is Debt Relief the Key?
Debt Relief
To complete our study of Africa, we will take a cursory look at debt relief, one of the "hottest" topics related to current African politics. First, let's answer the following questions as a class. Use the information in the Q&A article to find the answers.
To whom or what do African countries owe money?
If debts were cancelled, how would African countries benefit?
Can any poor country get debt relief? If not, which countries can receive this relief?
Now that we have the basic details, let's discuss whether or not we should do this. Consider the following questions.
Is this policy too condescending?
Does it encourage irresponsibility to simply get rid of debts?
Can debt relief help poor countries?
Is it the responsibility of the world's wealthiest countries to forgive poor countries' debts?
Will it hurt wealthy countries to forgive poor countries' debts?
Should wealthy countries force poor countries to do certain things in order to receive debt relief?
Homework
Your exam is tomorrow. Here are some things to keep in mind for writing a successful essay:
-You should answer the question in the thesis statement.
-Your paragraphs should follow the order of your thesis statements.
-In your paragraphs, tell the reader how the evidence you used helps answer the question.
-You do not need to be creative, just answer the question as clearly and accurately as possible using evidence from class to justify your answer.
-Your closing should bring your essay full circle and answer any opinion parts of the question that remain unanswered.
You will also have a multiple-choice test tomorrow. Here are some things that you should study for the exam. This list isn't exhaustive, but it should help you focus your studying.
Frantz Fanon
Kenneth Kaunda
Somalia
Conditions in Somalia prior to Operation Restore Hope
Justification for U.S. involvement in Somalia
The different goals of the mission in Somalia
Reasons for U.S. withdrawal from Somalia
Warlords
Operation Restore Hope
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Mission Creep
Nation-building
Aidid
PDD 25
Guidelines in PDD 25
Impacts of PDD 25
Rwanda
Conditions before colonization
Belgian colonial policies
Post independence policies
Events leading up to the genocide
How the genocide began and was carried out
International knowledge of what was going on in Rwanda
International response to Rwanda
Quota system
Scapegoat
Rwandan Patriotic Front
Hutu Power Movement
Arusha Accords
UNAMIR
Genocide Fax
Interhamwe
Dellaire
AIDS
Causes of the crisis
Proof that the crisis is a serious problem
Solutions to the crisis
PEPFAR – How it works, How it’s funded
Global Fund – How it works, How it’s funded
Nelson Mandela
Yoweri Museveni
AIDS crisis in South Africa
AIDS crisis in Uganda
Mbeki
Stigma
ABC program
Debt Relief
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December 1, 2006
Fourth Block Proposals and Comment Area
This is where I will paste the fourth block proposals. If you are in fourth block, make your comments here. Remember, your comments must be five sentences and must answer one of the following questions:
-Which of the solutions will be most effective and why?
-Are there factors that contribute to the AIDS crisis (poverty, misconceptions, etc.) that groups are failing to address in their solutions?
-What is most difficult about developing a solution to the AIDS crisis?
-Which of the solutions is most realistic?
-Which of the solutions would get the most support from the American people? Why is this important?
Feel free to respond to other people's ideas. This is supposed to be an online discussion. Your comment must be made by the start of class Monday.
In order to post a comment, click on the “comments” link. Then scroll to the bottom of the page. Put your first name and last initial in the “name” box and your email address in the “email address” box. You can skip the URL box. Write your comment in the “comments” box and hit “Post.” You are done!!
Proposal One
In our plan, our funding will come from a 101-dollar AIDS per year tax for American citizens. This would result in $31 billion per year for treatment, buildings, prevention, and research. This is a very good option for funding because a 101-dollar tax per year is very affordable for the average US citizen and this would give us all the funding that we need and the US government would implement this plan. We would spend $1 billion on building an AIDS vaccine research vicinity. This vicinity would be located in Denver, Colorado and would have access to all the most intelligent scientists and equipment in the world. We would use $9 billion dollars to build multiple treatment facilities in South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, Nigeria and India. We choose these areas because they have some of the highest number of people infected with AIDS. In these facilities we would make sure there is a large supply of the Triple-Cocktail drug and the drug that prevents mothers from passing AIDS to their children. Another $2 billion dollars would be spent on prevention of AIDS. We would buy very large quantity of condoms and distribute them to the people of Africa and educate them on the proper use of condoms. In part of the prevention plan we would include a plan that makes all the presidents of countries around the world aware of the fact that AIDS is a very large problem in the world and we would force them to make their country aware of this and also make them do things to help this as well. To get this done we would have an AIDS conference in the UN and push until all the leaders accept the plan. We would have multiple aids victims speak at this convention and we would get each leader to make a speech in their country about what we talked about in the conference. The rest of the $18 billion dollars we would spend on research for a vaccine for AIDS. We would research this vaccine in our new, high-tech AIDS building. Once we do figure out a vaccine we would use the majority of our funding to get this vaccine to our AIDS treatment facilities, hospitals and other AIDS centers around the world that would not cost a large amount of money but would be able to supply the vaccine to the people. In places in Africa where there are few hospitals. We would build all of our buildings within one year, and we would try to have our vaccine figured out within 2-3 years or as soon as possible.
Proposal Two
AIDS is becoming more and more of a problem in the modern world. Our goal for our mission is to prevent the spread of AIDS and treat AIDS patients equally. The population of people living with HIV/AIDS is increasing due to the fact that people diagnosed have a higher chance of living. Although death rates are decreasing, the number of people being diagnosed is not. Our proposal is to increase the amount and sophistication of HIV/AIDS medications and technology. We aim to spread the medications throughout all of Africa, parts of the U.S., Latin America, and parts of China.
Mission AIDS relief (MAR): Send missionaries from all of the above countries and volunteers from other countries to spread the word of AIDS. Missionaries visit hospitals to make them up to date with medical procedures and make sure they have the correct medication for beginning stages of HIV/AIDS and severe ones. They should also have medications such as AZT for pregnant mothers with HIV/AIDS to take so that their babies do not catch this disease. Missionaries should also make medical staff aware of AIDS so that they can teach their patients about the severity of this disease and teach many people how to protect themselves from pregnancy and deadly diseases. Teachers and parents as well as workers should be taught the problems of transmitting the disease, contracting the disease and the facts of it. We will fund this program by using some government tax money, but also raising money through all types of protection such as: condoms, diaphragms, and birth control. Donations are welcome, as well.
The people of MAR will supply condoms for many people in the countries that are included in our mission. MAR will take affect as of January 1st, 2007, and will proceed until December 31st, 2012.
We will mail proposals to celebrities and other wealthy people of the U.S. and other countries to request money for MAR. Missionaries will bring care packages to the countries involved in our mission, including easy to understand facts and directions for the use of condoms.
These AIDS/HIV infected countries need our help. By spreading the awareness of AIDS/HIV and giving them the medications needed to decrease the number of deaths will help treat and prevent AIDS/HIV to progressing into a global crisis. By easily providing medications needed MAR will allow people to recover from this life threatening disease. With MAR, people will be able to regain the trust of the U.S.
Proposal Three
Goals:
*Our main goal could be to try to prevent the spread of AIDS
*This would be good because there are already many people working on finding a cure for AIDS, and the only treatment we have is really expensive, and to give a just a few people treatment would be unfair and it wouldn’t really help the situation, because more people become infected every day.
Traveling AIDS clinic objectives: (the AIDS van!)
*we should make it so that people know how you can and can’t get AIDS, which would reduce the stigma against infected people.
*This would prevent people with AIDS from concealing their disease, so people would know better who had it and everyone could be more careful
*Our target is the fifteen countries with the highest rate of infection.
*We would work with the African government – advice always sounds better coming from people you’re familiar with, and African citizens would probably listen better to people from their country. We could possibly get African speakers as well – AIDS widows/widowers or people who have HIV
*Also, we could maybe use slides or pictures showing what happens when AIDS isn’t controlled, like AIDS orphans or dying victims. This is graphic, but we feel it gets the point across that AIDS is dangerous.
*Our AIDS Vans, as well as educating people, could serve as traveling clinics where people could be tested for HIV. The tests would be free of charge so that more people would be willing to take them.
*We would have to make it very clear that getting a test could prevent them from hurting other people
*If the tests came back positive, we would instruct them on what they should and should not do and explain how even though they might feel fine for a while, they can still transmit the disease. Also, we would stress that although AIDS is dangerous, their life isn’t over yet – many people who contract HIV live for decades afterwards, with proper treatment.
*Another point to make is to be careful around prostitutes, because they are often at a high risk for HIV.
*One of our main political goals would be to get the African government, as well as our own, to legalize prostitution. It’s going to happen anyway, so the government might as well regulate it and make sure that all involved people are being safe. This would slow the rate of HIV infection. We could also use this to keep track of the number of prostitutes, which could help governments see economic and health trends.
*Also, we would provide health care to prostitutes. This, admittedly, might encourage people who have nowhere else to go take up prostitution, which isn’t good; however, this would greatly slow the spread of HIV, and we feel that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Who will Impliment it:
*Our project would be based initially in the U.S., but we would hopefully spread it internationally once it gains momentum.
*We would work with the African government, which would allow us to use organizations already in place. Also, African citizens would be hearing this information from people they know and trust.
*We don’t have a set exit strategy, but once we feel that the situation in Africa has improved, we would give the AIDS Vans to the African government, and they could continue the program.
How Will We get the funding:
*We could do an AIDS walk up Mount Kilimanjaro. This has been done once by Scott Fischer, and it raised a lot of money for CARE. Kilimanjaro is a very easy mountain, as mountains go, so lots of people could climb it, not just mountaineers or experienced climbers. Lots of people want to climb Kilimanjaro. The climb could cost less than it usually does so people would want to go – we would probably charge about $500.
*We could approach Apple. They have already come out with an IPOD to help benefit AIDS. Our proposal would be that for every song sold online, Apple would donate five or ten cents to our cause.
*We could ask WalMart for a similar deal. WalMart is greatly in need of good publicity at the moment, so there is a good chance they would help us out.
Proposal Four
AIDS is an issue that must be dealt with in the most delicate way. The campaign against AIDS must obtain the carefully thought upon goals. The main goal is not to concentrate on the elimination of AIDS, but instead to slow the spread of the deadly disease. Although it would be a blessing, it is unrealistic to rely on the unlikely discovery of a cure or vaccine for AIDS. The campaign’s first form of action is to educate the public. The goal we are striving for is to inform all people how to avoid infection, get tested, and help to spread awareness. One very important aspect to cover is the importance of condom use. Condoms should be easily accessible. In order to educate the public we will use tactics such as public speaking in schools, and rural town gatherings. Other than public speaking, the media, such as newspapers, television, and the radio will also promote awareness. In order to properly promote AIDS information it would be most effective to use specific people that are held in high regard in each community. For example to teach Mounds Park students a well respected teacher like Ms. Murr would have a better impact than to use an unknown representative of AIDS. Other than education of the public it is a goal of the AIDS campaign to prolong the lives of current victims. In order to do this funding is necessary to provide the medical support for people with AIDS. Treatments that must be provided include the triple cocktail, AZT for pregnant women, and general care from a local hospital. Funding for the AIDS campaign should come primarily from government taxes and worldwide fundraising. Another case that must be confronted by the AIDS campaign is the mass number of orphans generated by AIDS casualties. Orphans should have an equal opportunity as a child with parents to receive funding for food, shelter, education, and healthcare. A major cause of AIDS is prostitution. Although they cannot be rid especially in countries suffering from poverty, prostitutes should be confronted by local AIDS workers. They should be given limitless condom supply, testing, and inexpensive treatment options for HIV, and of course education about the deadly disease. Slowing the impact of AIDS is a process that cannot be timed. It is unknown how long the disease will spread. The campaign, as of now, would be timed along a ten-year path. Tens years is a time-goal that will most likely be changed as the campaign moves further along. Funding the campaign should continue on a year-to-year basis. The goals of the AIDS campaign are plain and simple, education, prevention, and treatment.
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Second Block Proposals and Comment Area
This is where I will paste the second block proposals. If you are in second block, make your comments here. Remember, your comments must be five sentences and must answer one of the following questions:
-Which of the solutions will be most effective and why?
-Are there factors that contribute to the AIDS crisis (poverty, misconceptions, etc.) that groups are failing to address in their solutions?
-What is most difficult about developing a solution to the AIDS crisis?
-Which of the solutions is most realistic?
-Which of the solutions would get the most support from the American people? Why is this important?
Feel free to respond to other people's ideas. This is supposed to be an online discussion. Your comment must be made by the start of class tomorrow.
In order to post a comment, click on the “comments” link. Then scroll to the bottom of the page. Put your first name and last initial in the “name” box and your email address in the “email address” box. You can skip the URL box. Write your comment in the “comments” box and hit “Post.” You are done!!
Proposal One
There is a Pandemic ravaging the world that desperately requires the attention of the world. This pandemic is AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) attacks the immune system of its host and slowly breaks it down. This causes the most common and least lethal of diseases to end up killing its host.
Our three Primary goals are
1. Research
Our highest priority in the fight against AIDS is research. We believe that if the bulk of the money set aside for fighting AIDS is used for researching a cure, It would be much more cost effective if a cure is found. The World Health Organization would be the primary research organization.
2. Education
Our second priority is education in the most effected areas by AIDS. Our plan is to organize groups of people to tour the AIDS affected countries and to educate the populations. Hopefully this will make people more aware of their own HIV statues and feel more comfortable talking with their families/partners/friends. Hopefully this will help end the stigmatism and will make people with AIDS more known and educated to have safe sex/have only one partner.
3. Distribution of antiretroviral drugs in Africa
Our third priority is the distribution of antiretroviral drugs in Africa. Our plan is to acquire more funding to produce more antiretroviral drugs to be distributed to AIDS affected countries. Our plan is to distribute the drugs to the people in the most affected countries. AZT should be readily available and provided to HIV positive pregnant mothers
Timeframe
This program will require the cooperation of the world’s wealthiest countries and potential donors to give funds to our organization. We should also apply for grants from the world’s medial research organization. From there we will use the funds to do the goals listed above. Our organization will require major funding over the next 3-5 years. If this program is proven effective then we will reapply for funding after 5 years if this program is successful. This timeframe will prove to be the most productive because of the short duration the program will be more successful.
Proposal Two
The goals of our program are three-fold: to prevent the spread of AIDS, to treat AIDS patients, and to help find a cure for AIDS. This epidemic is spreading in Africa, and it is most important to treat those who have already acquired the disease.
Our goal is to send help to the ten poorest countries around the world with the highest percentage of patients living with AIDS.
In the countries this proposal will address, we will build and staff hospitals dedicated to working with AIDS specifically. Pregnant women will have a special wing in the hospitals because we’re not only dealing with the women but also the unborn baby. These hospitals will be taking all AIDS victims and will also have testing for HIV. If the patient is not going to survive we can give them hope. No one will be left in the dark.
We will run programs that will reach out to the entire communities and educate them about protecting themselves for sexually transmitted diseases. They will support abstinence, but will also educate people on the use of condoms and “safe sex.” The most important thing is to try to stop the spreading of the disease. We will provide free consultations about HIV/AIDS and free testing.
Our plan is to work openly with the governments to make sure that our programs fully assess the needs of their specific country. Therefore, our programs will differ slightly from country to country, as well as our main focus.
This program will be organized and partially funded through the American Red Cross. The World Funds will also help fund the expenses for our proposal. Our proposal involves setting up a charity through the Red Cross targeting treatment for AIDS patients.
In the next three months, we will start negotiations with the governments of potential AIDS countries we would help. Our proposal will expand over ten years. The first two years will be collecting funds and publicity. We will also begin construction of hospitals in our ten focus countries. The next eight years will be treating patients and filling our hospitals with experienced staff and available drugs. During these ten years, we will also staff a group of scientists whose goal is to find a cure and better treatments for AIDS. This group will be located in America.
Our proposal will help the AIDS crisis in the world by saving many lives and preventing many deaths.
Proposal Three
Our goal is to prevent the spread of AIDS by focusing and funding the top 10 most infected countries in Africa with AIDS/HIV. We believe that by preventing AIDS in the top 10 countries in Africa will lead to preventing AIDS around the whole continent. To stop the spread of AIDS/HIV we plan on sending people of many ethnicities with a background and knowledge of AIDS to the top 10 infected countries to inform and educate the people of Africa. We plan on sending people of different ethnicities to show that we do not want to take order, but rather help them fight this terrible epidemic. We want to influence the people of Africa to have safer sex and educate them about the disease and how it is spread.
In order to raise money to fulfill this proposal, we will organize fundraisers, present our ideas to news and radio stations, create adds to put into newspapers. This will allow us to seek a wide range of responses and convince and gather people to support our cause. We will present our proposal to large corporations, to urge them to fund the fight against HIV/AIDS. Large organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation will hopefully be large donators to our plan.
We propose that our deadline for obtaining 15 billion dollars will be 2012. This way we will have time to pressure the foundations to donate faster to this pressing problem. Although we have a deadline for collecting the money, we will still try to raise the pubic awareness about HIV/AIDS. It takes a lot of time and patience to completely stop this epidemic. Until we can make this epidemic stop spreading from all the places it has affected, we will always encourage people to donate to the cause of fighting HIV/AIDS.
With the 15 billion dollars we plan on raising we will provide healthcare to people infected with AIDS, make drugs more accessible, provide education about the disease to the people, provide things for safer sex, influence abstinence, and provide places of security and safety for the people who have contracted the disease. Education is a key component in fighting this disease and it is vital to the success of our proposal. If people are aware of how this disease is spread they will be less likely to infect others. This is why education is one our most prominent and pressing goals.
With this proposal we hope to prevent the spread of AIDS not only across Africa, but throughout the world one step at a time. We also hope that this mission gets the worlds attention about this rising epidemic and how crucial it is to fight.
Proposal Four
Our proposal will focus mainly on the countries most in need, and most impacted by AIDS. For example South Africa, Brazil, Zimbabwe, and Botswana are some of the countries on the list of top AIDS affected countries. Our plan would be mainly to focus on the top 10 affected countries. In these countries, we would spread treatment with things like antiretroviral drugs, and AZT (a drug that helps prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to fetus. We would spread knowledge about ways to prevent AIDS, like safe sex, using condoms, and making sure your partner doesn't have HIV/AIDS. We would also spread simple knowledge about AIDS, and spread knowledge of how to prevent spreading AIDS from mother to child, with drugs like AZT.
We would also reinforce the fact that HIV does cause AIDS, and drugs can help. In other countries less impacted and less in need, we would do a small amount of work like spreading knowledge, so this epidemic does not continue to threaten these in the same way. Spending more time in countries with a higher percentage of AIDS would give treatment to those with the strongest need, but spreading knowledge to the countries that are less affected would help to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
We feel that in order to effectively accomplish our proposal we need to do the fallowing things. We need to improve knowledge base all around the world, but mostly in sub-Saharan countries, and in the Caribbean. We need to abolish the prejudices, and stigmatisms against people with AIDS, and work toward a more open and equal environment. We also need to work towards a cure for AIDS, by working towards vaccine. Along with the research for a cure, we also want to improve the treatment of AIDS, by extending the treatments that are available to people, like antiretroviral treatments along with AZT. But to fully stop the vicious cycle that HIV/AIDS is causing, we feel we need to help the children that are AIDS orphans. We should help them to become fully functioning members of society instead of ignoring them, and allowing them to become part of the problem.
In order for our plan to work fully and get it started we need to work with other governments from other countries. We need to inform the leaders of the world that we need help to make the AIDS crisis stop. We need government-to-government contact and we need them to understand our plan and have them agree to help in our battle in this terrible disease. Our plan is to start with the US leaders and spread it throughout the countries through their leaders. To spread knowledge in the affected countries, we need to go through their government. First spreading knowledge to their leaders, and then having the leaders spread it publicly through their own countries. If AIDS can be publicly talked about, and the leaders have correct knowledge and information, the world will have much better and widespread information base. When everyone understands how serious it is spreading and how fast it is killing millions, this disease will stop spreading.
To help the people who are already diagnosed with AIDS or HIV, we need to make the numbers of people with AIDS go down instead of having it go up every year, by spreading knowledge and prevention treatments. For example the ABC (Abstinence, be faithful, and use a condom), program created in Uganda is a prevention treatment that
will spread ways to keep AIDS from spreading. Also having AIDS be a topic that is okay to publicly discuss will make knowledge about it be spread through out communities and people. We will take advantage of the funding program that we already have and will ask for donations from private donors. Asking for grants from people and foundation for example the Bill and Linda Gates foundation is another way of getting foundation. We need to help the people that are diagnosed and help stop and protect the people that will most likely get AIDS if they don’t have knowledge.
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