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This 3-page paper attempts to address the AIDs crisis in Africa and tries to determine the political advantage behind SAPs in addressing the problem. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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One of the points made in the article "Theoretical Therapies: Remote Remedies: SAPs and the Political Ecology of Poverty and Health in Africa" by Schoepf et al is
the intervention of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and their impacts on the AIDS epidemic. We choose AIDS as an example, mainly because it is the most publicized health crisis in
Africa - and it seems that no matter how much is being done to help rid that country of disease, it keeps cropping up. Also indicated in this particular article
is the impact of politics on trying to contain this epidemic. The main problem in this regards seems to be the well-meaning structural adjustment programs (SAPs), which involve packages of
aid offered (mainly through the IMF) by wealthier western nations on the condition that the least develop nations follow certain policies and procedures. The problem that were finding, however, is
that sometimes these SAPs can backfire, when actually, theyre trying to help. While access to this specific article was hard to come
by, we can at least examine the issues that are involved in researching these difficulties. AIDs tends to be an emotional subject, and trying to put a clear and concise
viewpoint on the topic is important for research, if effective means of reducing and eradicating the disease are to be found. Schoepf
points out in her article "International AIDS Research in Anthropology: Taking a Critical Perspective on the Crisis" that there tends to be a direct link between socialcultural processes (i.e., lifestyles
and politics) that end up leading to a risk of infection, with the "lifeworlds of suffers to the global political economy" (Schoepf 335).
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