IMPT: funding AIDS programs?

[pio_s]

my student council brought up donating money to an antiAIDS organization, we would be giving aroung $700. I asked then to postpone the vote so that i could research the charity.

Can you all help me out, is YOUTHAIDS an organization that promotes methods of combating aids through wrong methods.

This is the site, the person proposing the donation gave me… youthaids-aldo.org/

What do you think about supporting this organization, please respond quickly we will be deciding tomorrow!

Thanks

 

[water]

Looking up their website info, all I know is that they’re from Canada. The rest of the information their website is unknown to me.

However, here is an article on another website about them.
medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30435

You can google and find out more links to the organization.

 

[Woodstock]

I googled YOUTHAIDS and the word condom and came up with the following NY Times article about them (as well as a number of other sources).

THEY have a common enemy, but American charities working to fight the H.I.V. epidemic overseas are by no means cut from the same cloth.

One group that attracts attention for its humorous approach is YouthAIDS, which does ‘‘social marketing’’ of condoms in 60 countries.

‘‘We make condoms trendy and sell them for pennies,’’ said Kate Roberts, director of YouthAIDS. ‘‘People value something they have to purchase, even for a small price, more than something they get for free.’’

Lovers Plus in South Africa, Gold Circle and Cool in Nigeria, Prudence in the Ivory Coast, Love Plus in Romania and Favorite in Russia are all YouthAIDS brands.

‘‘AIDS in the City’’ is one of YouthAIDS’s television soap operas, produced in several languages, and ‘‘Excitable Johnny and His Raincoat’’ is one of its leaflets. ‘‘Mr. Condom’’ costumes are a staple. A YouthAIDS ad in Kenya, featuring two young women watching a young man take an outdoor shower, was so erotic that churches tried to knock it off the air, Ms. Roberts said. In Romania, YouthAIDS ‘‘sex cadets’’ in mock police uniforms cite young people for not carrying condoms.

They also have concerts (with popular headliners such as Missy Elliot, Dave Matthews, P. Diddy, and Alicia Keys) which are focused on condom use. They are held around the world and air on MTV. Their marketing includes shirts which say, “If you get ‘Ur Freak On’, make sure you ‘Work It’ with a condom.” Mr. Loverman, a condom costume, passes out condoms to youth while “freaking with all the girls” on the dance floor.

Their marketing and materials are directed to children, and it doesn’t look like the kind of message I’d be wanting to give them. Try the National Catholic AIDS Network or the National Council of Churches for their AIDS affiliates instead.