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Dr. John urges youth to take responsibility by talking honestly to their peers. He challenges governments and adult society to educate their youth because: "It's the human right of every maturing adolescent to have complete access to the medical facts. |
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Donate Please |
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By host on
12/31/2005
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That's right, we need money like every not-for-profit charitable organization doing good work. We are pleased to announce a $25,000 matching gift offer from two longtime supporters of TeenAIDS - as long as we can raise a similar amount from friends like you by my birthday, February 27. Please read this letter of appeal and consider giving TeenAIDS a generous tax-deductible donation. Please keep in mind that every donation of any size helps us to reach the goal. Could you help by passing our appeal on to friends in a position to give? Help Us
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We're Undergoing Construction |
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By host on
12/28/2005
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Every few days, another addition or section will be posted on our evolving website. You might have noticed our new look. Kyle Laughlin, who designed our previous site in 2001, has been instrumental in getting our revamped site online with the help of Kevin Pelletier, who is assuming more website responsibility in 2006. However, it is taking time. We have a lot of information to link and download while we raise funds to pay for the updates. Please be patient as we gear up for an official February 15th launch date. Our goal is to have the most extensive resource online for teens and young adults so that they have the uncensored, medically accurate information they need to avoid HIV and AIDS.
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Follow-up on Injury and Robbery in Panama |
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By host on
12/28/2005
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You can read the official police report about the robbery at a soccer game in a barrio of Panama City on December 11, 2005. I have recovered almost full use of my right side that was injured when I was struck by the robber's car in his get-away. I still need help typing and Johanne Cimon is assisting me. I received a wonderful email from a young man, Raphael Ernest Ballesteros,from Chorrillo who was there that day and expressed his disappointment that it happened in his neighborhood.
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Costa Rica |
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By host on
12/15/2005
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Costa Rica is truly a wonderful country with a very special personality all of its own in Central America. With a large group of volunteer youth, I canvassed the neighborhoods, schools, malls, and spoke to students at the University of Costa Rica in San Pedro and at the Pan American University in San Jose. When I asked Giovanni- a 20 year old- volunteer, what he liked most about his country, he looked at me and smiled and said, "We have no army." It struck me that that was what he was proud of. His second answer was, we love and respect our rain forest. I thought both answers were very unique and I hoped said a lot about the young people of Costa Rica.
At night a slew of university students guided me though the streets and parks of the capitol city, San Jose. I talked with many prostitutes, transvestites("Travesties") and drug dealers. In every case, these young people who are most at risk for HIV wanted to hear all the information about the sexual and needle transfers of HIV. Today, Monday December 12th, I am visiting two universities, where end of the year examinations are taking place. I will be doing walks to speak to groups of young people.
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Dr. John Robbed and Injured |
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By host on
12/15/2005
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On Sunday, December 11th I attended a football (soccer) game in a poor bario outside of Panama City. Normally, I travel with one or two volunteers but on sunday I travelled alone. For forty minutes I filmed my work with teenagers at the game, talking about AIDS and passing out my Spanish information cards. The response as always was overwhelmingly positive because young people here do not get any significant medical information about HIV prevention. So they have a lot of curiosity about the information. I talked to parents as well as teenagers and many mothers were very concerned about their children's sexual activity and the possibility of AIDS. Approaching the end of my outreach I was signaled by a man of about thirty to come over to his car. I went and the man said that he was worried that he had Aids and what should he do. I advised him that he should go to a clinic and be tested. At that moment he suddenly reached for my video camera that was strapped to my hand. He grabbed it and pulled it into the window of his car and my hand and arm followed. At that moment he stepped on the gas and the car lurched forward. I tried to get my hand out of the camera strap and I hit him in the face with my other hand. The car was starting to go fast and dragged me a few feet; then I was thrown to the ground and the wheel nearly missed my elbow and forearm. In a second the car was gone up the street. People immediately started running from the football field to where I was lying on the ground. There was an off-duty policeman at the game and he got on his walkie-talkie and called the police. One of the teenagers I had spoken to help me up from the ground and another teen took some napkins to stop the bleeding on my arm where the car had hit me. The police of Panama City did a wonderful job of helping me. We drove through neighborhood streets looking for the car and when we saw a possible match a policeman would jump out and put his hand on the car to see if it was hot from being on. At one point, with sirens on, they pursued a car down the highway (with me in the back seat) but it was not the robber.
I went to the main station and looked at a number of photos and found two possible matches for the robber. Then they took me to a medical clinic to get bandaged and to check on my arm. In a few minutes I will have X-rays to see if there was any further damage done to it.
This has delayed my return home by three days
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Welcome to our newly revamped website. |
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By host on
11/29/2005
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It has been my dream since my first
days at Harvard University in the 1980s that I provide the best and
most extensive website for teens on the internet dealing with issues of
HIV and AIDS prevention. And over the next six months, we are building
this special world-class website for you based on Harvard quality
research.
Here is what you are going to find:
** 23 language capability so that young people from around the world can access our information.
** The largest Glossary of terms and definitions to help the student and researcher understand AIDS terminology.
** Video, photos and stories of youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
** Teen advice of a medical nature "Ask Dr. John" that is confidential but available for all youth to read.
** Country-by-country reports featuring photos, videos, press accounts and stories by teens.
Plus many other great features.
I began my work with school students in the USA in 1992 and am an
expert in this specialized field from Harvard. To date, I have been to
70 countries to walk the streets to talk with youth, in and out of
school. I am leaving for Costa Rica on November 30 to walk and talk in
San Jose where I will be for World AIDS Day, December 1. A week later I
will arrive in Panama. Check in next week for my news update.
I am a volunteer in the fight against youth HIV/AIDS. Despite the fact
that I am offered an annual salary, I do not take one so that all
tax-deductible donations we receive go directly to this important work.
Mother Theresa was always a role model for me because of her selfless
work with the poor of India. Now I donate all my time and dedicate my
energies to this humanitarian cause because I know that HIV is
spreading rapidly among innocent, sexually active teens because they
are not getting the correct, medically accurate information from
schools and adults. On this site, you will receive the Truth about
AIDS, never censored information!
I need your help for me to
help you. If you know adults who can give money, please click here (MC,
VISA, AMEX). If you can write a short report (2 paragraphs) about your
ideas about the problem of teen HIV/AIDS -- or your idea to help
educate your friends, please click here. Would you like "Dr. John" to
come and speak at your school or in your hometown? Please tell me and
send your request in. Be sure to include a current email address or
your full mailing address.
While there are many good people
helping in the fight against the spread of AIDS, no other charitable
organization or person can do what we do. Our website was the first one
on the internet for teens about AIDS (1994) and now we are The Best!
Our mission statement is unique: "Full and honest access to the medical
facts is the human right of every maturing adolescent."
Thank you for visiting us, Dr. John.
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