Social Media Experiment to Eliminate HIV

Business and social media leaders teamed up Friday to tackle the transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, saying the medicine and the money are largely in place, and with the right organizational skills they can eliminate HIV-infected births by 2015. - Associated Press

So the plan is to use the power of social networking to increase the awareness of HIV/Aids in children. Women need to receive antiretroviral drugs to prevent the virus being passed to their unborn babies. If this can happen reports are stating that in 2015 there should be a significant decrease in the amount of children born with HIV. Instead of saying zero children will be born infected with the virus, in reality about only 13% of women will most likely unavoidably transmit the virus to their children.

I've already started seeing commercials that encourages everyone to "start a virus to end a virus"

"The long-term vision is for this to be a group of thousands or millions of people who can all broadcast in a coordinated manner where there is a global crisis."
Other business leaders involved in the project include Dominic Barton, managing director of consulting firm McKinsey & Co., and Cynthia Carroll, CEO of the mining company Anglo American PLC.
"AIDS," Carroll said, "should not be a disease of children."

What do you think is the best way to stop the transmission of HIV from mother to child...and more?

Equality - The American Dream **Attention LGBT NJ YOUTH**

ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2012 AT 11:00 AM, THE NEW JERSEY SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE IS HOLDING A HEARING AND VOTE ON S. 1, THE NEWLY REINTRODUCED MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL. JOIN US! ARRIVE AS EARLY AS YOU CAN.

Please meet us as early as possible on Tuesday morning at the State House, 125 West State Street, Trenton. You can park at the Trenton Marriott, 1 West Lafayette Street, only three blocks from the State House, and then walk to the State House. You cannot arrive too early. We will be at the State House at the crack of dawn. The hearing room will be jammed and our anti-equality opponents intend to pack the room. Please wear your EQUALITY The American Dream t-shirt from two years ago if you have one. If ever there was a day to take off from work - which we don't ask you too often - this is it, history in the making.

WE ARE COMPILING WITNESSES TO TESTIFY FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY. We are specifically seeking:

Civil union couples who have faced difficulties with the civil union law.
Civil union couples who want to talk about what the deprivation of marriage equality means to them.
Clergy.
LGBT Youth.
Parents or other loved ones of LGBT youth.
Supporters of marriage equality, straight or LGBT.

IF YOU’D LIKE TO TESTIFY, PLEASE E-MAIL Testify@GardenStateEquality.org, put TESTIFY in the subject header, and include in the email your name, town and the easiest phone number at which to reach you, which we will not give to anyone. Please also include which category above applies to you, or any other category or anything else relevant.

Whether or not you want to testify, we beg you to join us. We need a massive crowd. Right now, please forward this email to every supportive friend and colleague you have and to every blog and list serv of which you are a member.

Questions? Steven Goldstein is at cell (917) 449-8918.

Thank you, the world's greatest members, for never giving up. GAME ON AGAIN!

Safe Smart Sex

Safe Smart Sex





Imagine a world where no one told you anything about sex. Absolutely nothing, not how it feels, how to do it, what to do, or who to do it with. Yet here you are walking down the street and someone tells you to have safe sex and hands you a bag chock full o’ adult goodies. Condoms, female condoms, dental dams, birth control... etc. What would you do?

Unfortunately, you’d probably do the same thing most people do, ignore the PSA that’s standing right in front of you and keep it moving. I mean could we really blame you? You don’t know anything about the topic but I’m forcing my safe sex protest into your brain.

I think its safe to say that naturally you wouldn’t want to harm yourself, nor would you want to dip your naked body in a pool full of bacteria. Smart sex is the idea of having a smart sex life. In a world where people are obsessively consumed by eating smart, driving smart, and being financially smart wouldn’t you want to have sex the genius way?

This includes thinking about how being sexually active effects your mind, body and soul. Some consider being sexually active a risk in itself for your body, but what about your feelings. How often are you willing to give your body away at the expense of your health?

Now try and imagine a world where your wants and needs came first, not only to yourself, but to everyone. Any person you meet has the utmost respect for you and some are actually in awe of the person you’ve grown to be. If everyone wanted to protect you, you would be more conscious of protecting yourself right?

Well, that is the world you live in. We want to protect you...

If you’re more conscious about the food that goes in your mouth, rather than the body fluids you are exchanging with the next person, maybe it’s time to prioritize. Protecting yourself is just the beginning.

Just Think About It...

Do you practice Smart Sex? Let us know your thoughts, just spill the beans down below!