HIV Education for the YouTube Generation
On Monday, we told you that at least 15 percent – still a significant portion – of reported AIDS-related deaths were from contracting HIV through gay sex.
On Tuesday, we told you U.N. officials reported that “despite a stepped up global battle against AIDS, the numbers of people newly infected with HIV are far and away outpacing the numbers beginning antiretroviral drug treatments.”
Today, it’s time for a little more school. The web video series HIV is Still a Big Deal, debuting today, is an attempt to bring HIV/AIDS education to the web. The hope? That the only thing spreading virally is the video. More about the series below:
Grounded in statistical research, the series is a unique collaboration between two project directors from the very different fields of epidemiology and learning theory. Dr. Mary Ann Chiasson is an epidemiologist and Vice President for Research and Evaluation with Public Health Solutions, one of the largest nonprofit organizations in New York City that merges research and action to prevent disease and improve community health. Francine Shuchat Shaw is a faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University and a veteran researcher in learning theory and educational media.
“We’ve found that online video can be a powerful new intervention tool in the fight against HIV,” said Chiasson, who leads the Public Health Solutions Internet Research Group. “We are seeing that it can be as effective as one-on-one outreach, but with the Internet’s scope, it has the potential to reach and influence thousands of men.”
Gay men = 50% of HIV/AIDS cases in America
Total percent of federal $$$ for HIV prevention among Gay men = 20%
do the math, they don’t care about us
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I just want to bitch slap both of them…They were both irresponsible and stupid. Guess us older hands have to teach the young ‘uns.
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And, what’s Josh doing checking out Eric’s medicine cabinet??? Josh should have minded his own business.
BTW, if I were to catch someone checking out my shit, I’d kick ‘em out and tell ‘em to mind their own store…
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The more I thik about the video, the more the whole damned thing pisses me off……
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The Secret Origin of AIDS in America:
Facts, Fallacies and Conspiracy Theories
In 2006 the AIDS epidemic will be a quarter-century old. Officially starting in June 1981 as a mysterious and fatal disease exclusively found in several dozen young white gay men from New York City and Los Angeles, the disease has now killed 20 million people with 40 million more currently infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), widely accepted as the sole cause of AIDS. One million Americans are now infected with HIV; and almost half of the new cases are African-American.
By Alan Cantwell, MD
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read.html?id=5420
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This is such a crappy video. not only crappy but unbelievably shitty. a) it’s way, way way too long. b) oh yeah the way to teach people about aids is to scare them of people who have it. and c) “every single guy from my 21st birthday is dead”?! What the fuck was that?
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HIV Education in America = Oxymoron