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You will prepare and submit a term paper on Is the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Exclusively a Third World Security Issue. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Is the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Exclusively a Third World Security Issue. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length. This is both surprising and unfortunate as, according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the condition “destroys the very fabric of what constitutes a state: individuals, families, communities, economic and socio-political institutions, and the military and police forces which guarantee the protection of state institutions.” While this statement may appear to be hyperbolic, there is a definite relationship between the level of security in a Third World state and the percentage of its population affected by HIV/AIDS. In 2000, the Clinton administration in the United States declared HIV/AIDS a national security threat. Speaking on behalf of the administration, Deputy White House press secretary Jim Kennedy told reporters on April 30 that the disease is "a legitimate and ongoing health concern with the potential to destabilize the government."

Unfortunately, despite the White House’s bold comments, little tangable action has been taken in recent years. While the Bush administration made significant and relatively unheralded financial contributions to the global fight against HIV/AIDS, their efforts alone did little to address either the roots of the problem or the real long term consequences of allowing this disease’s vicious spread to continue. However, despite the efforts of successive U.S. presidential administrations, the question of whether this is a problem that limits itself to state boundaries - or one of the global proportions - remains in dispute. For some fringe elements, the very existence of the disease has been questioned. Even Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008 has publicly challenged the standing, and widely accepted beliefs about HIV/AIDS and has argued that the HIV infection does not actually cause AIDS. I note this fact not to debate the validity of longstanding scientific research but offer some insight into the controversies surrounding this issue. Much of this essay will focus on the challenges the HIV/AIDS pandemic poses to national and international security. However, in attempting to resolve this dispute, it would be useful to begin by examining our working definition of security.

Benjamin Miller, in his paper The Concept of Security: Should it be Redlined?, argues that the Cold-War era&nbsp.definition of security has expired. The traditional exercise of identifying a threat and formulating an appropriate response is, in many cases, outdated.&nbsp.

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