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Would you kiss this sexy tv-presenter?
I like well made advocacy videos - and the one that British Red Cross released today definitely falls into this category. It features Konnie Huq, a well know and very sexy tv-presenter (well known in the UK). The question is: "Would you still want to kiss her, if she was HIV positive?"
The reason this video was made is a survey that British Red Cross commissioned of 16-25-year-olds in the UK. The result:
Even though 85 per cent know you cannot catch HIV from a kiss, 69 per cent of respondents said they wouldn't kiss someone with HIV.
Or as British Red Cross puts it: "There is safety. And then there is stigma."
- Timo Luege's blog
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UN Declaration states young people need access and info to prevent HIV infection!
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/f49b798beafb70833c4ff053b33ea6fe.htmAFRICA: Tell us more – Children call for sex education 11 Dec 2008 23:43:25 GMT Source: IRINReuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. DAKAR, 11 December 2008 (IRIN) - Children in sub-Saharan Africa want to know more about sex and how to protect themselves from HIV, but taboos surrounding children's sexuality can mean life-saving information is kept from them, according to an international NGO.
- debl's blog
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Sms based HIV/AIDS education quiz in Uganda
Is education in Africa changing as mobile telephony expands to rural areas and rates keep dropping?
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WITNESS and the HUB
As we have said in previous post the power of the video have no limits. Just think about the images that we saw coming from the Beijing Olympics ceremony, or the images we saw coming from the quick war between Russia and Georgia. But there are other important issues that go uncovered. There are heart-breaking stories that go unheard. What news networks tend to cover are the political side of the issues, but hardly the human side. The reason being that they think they are not news worthy.
- Fayza's blog
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YouthAssets - Connecting the World's Most Vulnerable Youth
YouthAssets will develop a web-based knowledge management tool that utilizes the latest mapping technologies and collaboration tools to enable youth and their supporters to share critical information about and for HIV/AIDS orphans in Southern Africa.
Current technical components of YouthAssets are: (1) Collaborative website that will include user profiles and shared spaces (Drupal or other) (2) Collaborative database that will integrate existing data as well create an interface to add new data on youth in Africa and resources available (SQL server or Oracle, ESRI, etc.) (3) Maps of aggregated data into visual format (Google Earth or other) (4) Use of software to be used on mobile devices
HIV ATLAS: Serving positively proud people
HIV Collaborative Fund
HELP International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network
A telemedicine-based on-line community of physicians, financial donors and emergency personnel bringing advanced medical assistance to disaster zones and areas of chronic humanitarian need around the world.
To bring together a secure web-based network that can provide telemedical connection between physicians/hospital networks (ISDN & IP) to mobile medical clinics. In addition, also limited access for donors to see pre-scheduled live feeds from these clinics around the world (includes blogs, photos and live video). Additionally, we want to enable donors to designate what they wants funds allocated to and provide accountability documentation for them to see this was done, with nothing being deducted for operational overhead. 100% of what they give goes to the project and we want to prove it…CLEARLY.
Long story short. telemedicine plus complete transparent accountability to the donors all through one web site (obviously some aspects of this site will be very secure = medical/ HIPPA, etc).
I just returned from the American Telemedicine Association conference in Nashville. We (HELP) are at the leading edge of international telemedicine. Many telemedicine resources from around the globe want to take part in this network. It can save many thousands of lives and greatly reduce suffering in some of the toughest places on earth.
This combined with what is unfortunately the very innovative concept of providing complete accountability to our donors, makes this (we believe) a very interesting news story.
Our focus is to find foundation, corporate and private support for modest operational overhead. Again, this will enable us to place 100% of funds collected during public appeals directly into the relief projects in the field. No big deductions for big salaries, private jets, or other phoophoo. Just getting the job right with no smoke and mirrors.
Additionally, my background was originally in broadcasting. Having been a news director and talk show host for a decade, I believe I know what it takes to be a good interview.
We need help with world class business management and networking to communicate our vision to fortune 500 corporations who can assist us with intellectual licencing, transporation and other overhead. We need to get our vision in the minds of leaders with forward thinking vision who know it is time to help support an organization that is doing the right things, the right way.
One of the big challenges is making sure everyone (hospital networks, physicians and the public) can communicate on this platform.
Both ISDN and IP teleconference protocols need to be enabled so Polycom and Tandberg (two biggest teleconference medical platforms) can be used. The problem is those two companies don't play nice together. Thus we need another system that can talk to both. I met with Global Media (based in Scottsdale AZ) at the ATA conference earlier this week. They have a platform that could work. I'm not sure if they are just re-selling or if this is OEM they placed their logo on.
We need network building, blogs, etc. What ever works best is fine with me.
We need to keep in mind bandwidth requirements on teleconferencing as many times this will be done from remote locations with limited abilities.
We need satellite BGAN units (higher speed) and various broadband and wifi capabilities for use in various countries. While we have used the INMARSAT network, ideas of how to lower high sat costs would be great.
Sharing and engaging
Well I'm glad I found Net2 yesterday, right up my street as we say, as that's where we're coming from. A selection of other projects on the go which I haven't submitted here.
First, there's the campaign to raise awareness of the Holodomor, or Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, the aim being to leverage public support and encourage MEPs to sign up to a UN declaration.
Then there's the current day issue of HIV/AIDS awareness and a collaboration with others using the medium of music to spread the message:
