There is perhaps no issue more timely and critical than the status of people living in poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. While world attention has once again focused on this crisis, attention has not translated to sufficient action. Despite the promise of the G-8 to end African poverty, the World Development Movement calls the current solutions “a disaster for the world’s poor.” The public health problem in Africa is an essential topic, with current research and a wide array of potential solutions for both affirmatives and negatives to consider.
2007-08-26 13:50:05 · 8 answers · asked by justagoodollboy313 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Until corruption in Africa can be reduced to reasonable levels (hoping to eliminate corruption is a pipe dream), most money will go to the leaders' coffers, or be used on weaponry to keep those leaders in power. It's like flushing money down the toliet.
2007-08-26 13:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Aren't we giving enough money away to almost every country already? Only Finland has paid back the United States. All other countries just take and take and take. Then we wonder why our own children are starving and dying here in the United States. If we take care of our own problems first, we can help others. The sad news is that many of the countries we give aid to actually hate us and vote against us in the U.N. meetings and threaten to bomb us and yet we just keep on giving. How dumb are we as a nation? Go figure.
2007-09-03 09:55:16 · answer #2 · answered by Lisa B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
public health in sub-Saharan Africa would respond very well to a significant reduction in poverty there.
However, as I suspect even you believe, poverty in Africa hasn't been alleviated in the past 50 plus years of trying and isn't likely to be significantly reduced while the world and Africa allows dictators to destroy entire economies as is currently happening in Zimbabwe.
So my response to your question is "NO".
Attacking health issues in Africa only leads to more poor Africans, not to solutions that will actually work. The problem isn't health ... health is a symptom of the actual problem, which is the culture that creates and recreates abject poverty.
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2007-08-26 14:08:31 · answer #3 · answered by Spock (rhp) 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is there a reason why the US government should help sub-Sahara Africa? It seems the US tax dollars are being used for other things than it should be used for. There are more important matters that need the US attention.
2007-08-26 13:59:43 · answer #4 · answered by Mark C 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we need to take care of the health care and education of the american people first before we can go helping other people in areas we have not mastered. after we do i say help everyone, in the meantime rebuild what we have and make it the best, america should be the best at everything. it is a super power.
2007-09-03 10:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by KARMA IS IT THOU? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, thank you for bringing this to our attention today. It just serves to make me happy they aren't on one of our borders or all of them would be flooding in, too. All taxpayers can be happy about that. It's bad enough we have to pay for services for the illegal aliens like free housing, free food stamps, free medical care, and free education. I am sick of paying for people that shouldn't be here in the first place.
2007-08-26 13:59:37 · answer #6 · answered by Julie H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because it would cause nuclear war, which outweighs other impacts.
2007-09-01 09:04:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO WAY SCREW AFRICA THEY CAN WORRY ABOUT THEM SELVES.
2007-09-02 21:14:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋