  We study effective theories of an axion in spontaneously broken
supersymmetric theories. We consider a system where the axion supermultiplet is
directly coupled to a supersymmetry breaking sector whereas the standard model
sector is communicated with those sectors through loops of messenger fields.
The gaugino masses and the axion-gluon coupling necessary for solving the
strong CP problem are both obtained by the same effective interaction. We
discuss cosmological constraints on this framework.
