World AIDS Day 2007 Video

I made this video to show to my church on December 2nd (a day after World AIDS Day, which falls on a Saturday). This will be used at the beginning of a 10-minute presentation to raise awareness and support for HIV/AIDS initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa. Leave a comment if you wish.

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News & Politics

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• world
• aids
• day
• africa
• hiv

[crestway75]

'Christian based' faith groups continue to preach abstinence in Africa as an effective way of protection for HIV infection and denies people the access to condoms.

1000's of people in Africa and other third world countries are falling victims of HIV because of the churches views on condoms, shame on then

[jesuspolitics]

A pretty uninformed view, actually. Most Christian organizations would "preach" abstinence outside of marriage (afterall, it is pretty much the most effective way to stop the spread of any STD/STI), but many also have no problems distributing condoms and teaching on their use.

I agree, shame on any NGO that refuses to acknowledge condoms are needed, but I would also say shame on you for confusing the issue with what appears to be your own personal vendetta against religion.

[MyBlackAmerica]

5 Stars - Everyone should see your video.

[jesuspolitics]

Thanks, I would only hope they would watch it (and any other on youtube) and be motivated into action against AIDS!

[blueberrytwist77]

holy crap, thats so sad, an the last like 40 seconds with the stats, about ppl dieing during the video made it seem so real, wow...

[jesuspolitics]

thanks for the comment. ya, the part with the child's coffin always gets me, even though i've seen the video about 100 times (while editing it, etc). the real question is... what do we do in response!?!

[AB5309]

i have my red ribbon for saturday.

[Adamus70]

@REisCool Fight against Cancer or AIDS with the help of your personal computer?

And use the Computer just as before at the same time?

Not possible?

Possible.

Give worldcommunitygrid in Youtube search field or any search machine. Installing BOINC is safe and for free.

The Programm runs without problems for years already.

Thanks, in the name of severly ill people, for your attention.

Please do not only watch videos, make the world a more beautiful place helping ill people with your PC

[REisCool]

@firemaple maybe they're being ironic

[firemaple]

Nice effort, but absolutely WORST song choice. What a wonderful world? You are talking about AIDS, for Pete's sake.

[omarhea1]

god help us all.... theses children need all the they can get....

this brings me to tears.....

[MatthewBiznetz]

You are right. Fact of the matter is, 40 million is about twice as many people are actually infected. Sure, 40 million SOUNDS a lot nerve-racking, but please, when it comes to AIDS, get some facts.

[da1nextdoor2every1]

I can say briefly that I am deeply worried by the extent to which this video uncritically accepts questionable or phony statistics about AIDS. The truth is that the 40 million number you cited it a huge overestimate. This is revealed in "The AIDS Pandemic", a book by James Chin.

[crownprince713]

I know Africa is in a really troublwsome situation today.Most people always look at Africa when they see or think about poverty and AIDS most of the time.There are lots of places.India for example is the country with the largest AIDS population.Poverty is in the global stage and should not just be looked at Africa.Peace and love.

[Mann1979HH]

the problem with religious people is that tehy claim to be soooo great, but they are at least as sinful as atheists. It's not about vendetta, but about being fed up with that extreme religious hypocracy!

Condoms turn me on.