Acknowledgments

I thank my teaching assistant Yael Zeira, professors Peter Rosendorff and John Gershman, and mentor Helen Epstein for their academic guidance and insight throughout this project. I would also like to acknowledge the resilience of the HIV/AIDS affected communities with which I have been privileged to work, specifically my friends in Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, and Uganda. I am inspired by those using available resources to their best ability to diminish the destruction of AIDS in their communities, despite the burdensome politics of aid. Your tireless efforts have motivated me to search for significant insight into how to best give and use AIDS-aid.