The US Fed Gvt. should substantially increase public health assistance to sub-suharan Africa.

I'm going to take it you mean all of sub-Saharan Africa by the way you worded this. So here are my reasons why we shouldn't do this. 1. Corrupt governments. 2. Moral Hazard. 3. BioPower. 4. Aid Dependency. 5. Aid Tradeoff. 6. Securitization. 7. Afrocentrism 8. Brain Drain. 9. Infrastructure. 10. You 1. So starting with corrupt governments, probably the most minimal reason I have on here. Seeing as the only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Somalia. These countries have been known to seize aid that we send them, especially monetary aid. This poses a minor problem to implementing any aid program. 2. Moral Hazard. This is the idea that countries feel impowered and backed up by the U.S. Thus they are more likely to promote wars or attempt to overthrow powers that before this point they would have been worried about. These attempts are the results of their feeling that the U.S has their back. HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE ENCOURAGES WORSE BEHAVIOR THROUGH A MORAL HAZARD – Bandow '07 [Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow and the CATO Institute, 2007. FOREIGN FOLLIES BOOK REVIEW, Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention, Accessed 4-28-07, http://www.antiwar.com...] However, there's another potential problem with humanitarian intervention that advocates of warmongering for good rarely acknowledge: threatening to intervene to settle bitter internal conflicts creates an incentive for weaker parties to foment such conflicts. For many rebellious groups, outside intervention is the only hope for success; thus, triggering involvement by a neighboring nation, regional power, or the globe's superpower becomes an overriding objective. In economic-speak this is the problem of "moral hazard." 3. BioPower. Biopower is literally having power over other bodies, "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations" (-Wiki) Basically it started with the colonialism of Africa and has been happening ever since. Africa has simply been exploited over and over by the U.S and has made no progress. 4. Aid Dependency. Us giving them aid stop their own will to do something about their problems and makes them dependent on us. This factors into biopower. An example would be seeing a poor civilian on the street and giving him 50k. This would stop his need to look for jobs or even find his own money. Which in turn would screw him about the time he ran out of that 50k. 5. Aid Tradeoff. Not within the U.S but rather within Africa. Many countries are known to stop their own aid programs win we begin to help them in order to focus on other part of their country. 6. Securitization. Many of the problems with Africa have been classified as a national or even universal security issue. Some view the threat of avian flu or Aids as a potential world wide epidemic. ~~securitization tends to encourage policy responses formulated along the axis of "threat-vulnerability-defence," where the imperative concern is to provide a distance--or even to eliminate--the perceived threat~~ Abrahamsen. 7. Afrocentrism. Or the lack their of. The U.S and other western donors of aid / European donors of aid. Do not view the African problems from an African standpoint. Instead they view the problems from a European/American framework. This has resulted in numerous failed policies over the years. 8. Brain Drain. When we train workers over there they end up leaving Africa for the higher paying jobs and better quality of living in the U.S. 9. Infrastructure. Virtually non-existent. I think its something like 80% of the roads are flooded for part of the year. How do you plan to deliver aid. Even if you want to fly it in it is only going to be to major cities. 10. You. You are classifying Africa into a region. Which you refer to as Sub-Saharan Africa. This comes with a very negative connotation that they are somehow sub-human. And through that spurs racism only hurting the problem. We've been attempting to help Africa for 40-50 years and Africa has, as a whole, only become more impoverished. If you want give me a specific plan and I will tell you specifics on why I feel it won't work. =)