African Brain Drain

A – Countries curbing medical professional recruiting

Hagopian et al – Researcher, health work-force policy,
University of Washington and Health Alliance International –
‘10
Amy, Stemming the Brain Drain of Health-Care Workers From Developing
Countries, May, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/29-2
Some countries have.... are hard to come by.

B- Plan causes African Brain Drain

Parthasarathi Former Science Advisor to the Indian Prime Minister ‘6
(Ashok-, May 26, “Turning brain drain into brain circulation”,
http://www.scidev.net/en/opinions/turning-brain-drain-into-brain-
circulation.html)
Recently, however, there... many doctors and nurses.

C- This risks global disease outbreaks

Hagopian et al – Researcher, health work-force policy,
University of Washington and Health Alliance International –
‘10
Amy, Stemming the Brain Drain of Health-Care Workers From Developing
Countries, May, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/29-2
The critical shortage of... no one to administer them.

D- Disease causes extinction

Steinbruner 97

Emigrating nurses are comparatively more valuable in their native

countries
Lisa Nguyen Medicine, University of Washington 8, Steven Ropers, Esther
Nderitu, Anneke Zuyderdui , Sam Luboga and Amy Hagopian “Intent to
migrate among nursing students in Uganda: Measures of the brain drain in
the next generation of health professionals” Human Resources for Health
2008, 6:5
Regardless of the ratio of AND urban areas over rural areas [7].

Emigrating nurses collapse the health care infrastructure of countries in the

African Region
WHO 6 Joses M Kirigia, Akpa R Gbary, Jennifer Nyoni, Anthony Seddoh,
and Lenity K Muthuri- World Health Organization- Health Financing and
Social Protection Unit “The cost of health-related brain drain to the WHO
African Region” African Journal of Health Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 3-4, July-
Dec, 2006, pp. 1-12
When the health professionals emigrate AND, e.g. HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria.

No brain circulation
WHO 6 Joses M Kirigia, Akpa R Gbary, Jennifer Nyoni, Anthony Seddoh,
and Lenity K Muthuri- World Health Organization- Health Financing and
Social Protection Unit “The cost of health-related brain drain to the WHO
African Region” African Journal of Health Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 3-4, July-
Dec, 2006, pp. 1-12
Loss of savings (investment capital):AND family members left behind in
home countries.

Brain circulation bad

WHO 6 Joses M Kirigia, Akpa R Gbary, Jennifer Nyoni, Anthony Seddoh,
and Lenity K Muthuri- World Health Organization- Health Financing and
Social Protection Unit “The cost of health-related brain drain to the WHO
African Region” African Journal of Health Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 3-4, July-
Dec, 2006, pp. 1-12
Leads to “internal” brain drain:AND orientation of their activities.

AT Migration inevitable
Lisa Nguyen Medicine, University of Washington 8, Steven Ropers, Esther
Nderitu, Anneke Zuyderdui , Sam Luboga and Amy Hagopian “Intent to
migrate among nursing students in Uganda: Measures of the brain drain in
the next generation of health professionals” Human Resources for Health
2008, 6:5
We found 70 percent of nursing AND as the result of limited capacity [3].

The affirmative in an effort to continue US hegemony is sentencing

Africa to a slow death through brain drain.
Ainalem Tebeje 2005 “Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa”
__http://www.idrc.ca/thinktank/ev-71249-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html__ The
International Development Research Centre.

“In 25 years, Africa will be empty… obstacles to Africa’s development.” [See box:
__Some Statistics on Africa’s Brain Drain__]

Brain drain is so severe that Africa has to employ expatriate

professionals to met basic needs. This is recolonization.
Ainalem Tebeje 2005 “Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa”
__http://www.idrc.ca/thinktank/ev-71249-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html__ The
International Development Research Centre.

Brain drain in Africa has financial, … home to even greater mass

The plan’s harms are a result of the machinery of neo-colonial

dominance which negates Africa’s value to life.
Manzo, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of
Newcastle, 2003 (Kathryn A. “Am I an Ex-Slave?: African Political Theory
and the Politics of Representation.” Theory & Event - Volume 7, Issue 1,
2003)
The central assumption of On the Postcolony is that postcolonial Africa … special
feature is to be nothing at all."//
A. UQ The brain drain is currently in reverse due to tedious US immigration
laws

Brown ‘10

(Steve. Economic analyst for Capital Press. “Employers focus immigration

reform debate.” Capital Press. 8/19/2010.
http://www.capitalpress.com/orewash/SB-immigration-summit-082010-art-
sidebar)

VivekWadhwa, himself a naturalized U.S

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send them back home to be your competitors.

B. Increasing the visa cap ensures that many more foreign immigrants will
leave their home countries and stay in the US

Cromwell ‘09

(Courtney L., J.D. candidate, Brooklyn Law School, 2010, Brooklyn Journal
of Corporate, Financial &Commerical Law, Spring, “note: friend or foe of
the u.s. Labor market: why congress should raise or eliminate the h-1b
visa cap”, 3 Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. 455)JH

Proponents of raising the cap argue that preventing

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national basis with the [United States]." n18

C. INTERNAL LINK – BRAIN DRAIN EMIGRATION OF AFRICAN

HEALTHPROFESSIONALS TO WESTERN COUNTRIES CREATES
MAJOR HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS FOR AFRICA

Labonte et al, 2004 [Ronald, Director of Saskatchewan Population Health

and Evaluation Research Unit,TedSchrecker, Associate Professor of
epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa,David
Sanders, Director of School of Public Health, University of Western Cape,
South Africa, and WilmaMeeus, Pediatrician for the Zambian Health
Ministry; International Development Research Center, 2004,
Fatal Indifference: The G8, Africa and Global Health, p. 58]

Another reason for the deterioration of health-

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South Africa reach US$37 million annually.

D. IMPACT - FAILURE TO MAINTAIN HEALTH CARE CAPACITY KEY

LEADS TO MILLIONS OF AIDS-RELATED DEATHSAND UNDOES
POTENTIAL TO CURE DISEASES

State News Service ’07

(State News Service, March 7th, 2007)

"I am very proud to join my

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ensuring our efforts to fight these diseases succeed."

If we don’t stop AIDS in Africa we face total extinction – this is a systemic

risk that outweighs all other risks.
Muchiri ‘00
(Michael. Kenyan Ministry of Education, psychology graduate student at
GadjahMada University. March 6, 2000. The Jakarta Post, “Will Annan
finally put out Africa’s fires?”)
But his vision, unless backed up by
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the black race and maybe the human race.