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:thx: for the links Hot Men indeed!!!

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:faint: Frightening News indeed.

From the earliest days of HIV/AIDS the % of funding available for educational resources has always been lower than needed by groups and programs providing this educational service to the communities they serve.Back when I was deeply involved in this effort we finally received $32,000 to hire an official HIV/AIDS Educator for the County I lived in at the time. The funds were to be Administered thru the County Health Dept. They made the decision to use those Funds to appoint the Doctor working for the HIV/AIDS Clinic as that official Educator. It was purely a political move to fund an unpaid Doctor's Staff position. This Doctor would provide no committed hours to an educational effort vs a 40 hours a week Educator.  :crazy: Long story short I prevented them from diverting these funds but earned many enemies at the Health Dept. in the process. I feel sure that the funds are still not equal to the task to this day.  :cens:

The second point I would make is that the age group mentioned in this article has always been the hardest group to reach for basically 2 reason's:

1. Parental concerns ~ Parents have no problem with the "Abstinence" (no sex till you are married) approach to HIV/AIDS education. But the minute you mention having sex of any kind they freak out and assume that the education is now encouraging their kids to have sex. God forbid you mention Gay sex or try to give out condoms.   :xpl:

2. This age group has no clue how vulnerable they are to life and it's twists and turns. They feel "Invincible" to all of life's dangers let alone HIV/AIDS. I do not see this fact as ever changing.  :cry2:

HIV/AIDS Education has always been the best tool in the fight to prevent the disease's spread. This has been true from Day 1 and will never change unless they find a vaccine one day.

:welco:  to the GT.ru Forums!!!

I hope we will see you making some posts in your favorite Boards ~ even if it is just a :thankyou: to a thread. :bighug:

:hehe: I have long thought that some of these colors need to be changed so that each category was more easily identifiable.

:clap2: @ Dax for braving to bring this up. I will give 2 links to wonderful color charts below

hXXp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

hXXp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors

I am sure mgr can provide you with the specific color codes currently in use. I would think to change these color codes is fairly easy to do but gain mgr would have that answer as well.

Personally I am all for same changes in these color codes because, as you mentioned, some are so close in color it is hard to tell the difference. However, I am not sure everyone will feel the same since these colors have been in use for so long.

:hmmm:  Perhaps I should split the topic and move this discussion to the Staff Forums  :hmmm:

I had signed several petitions already but IMHO you can never sign too many for a Good Cause  :cheers:

:thx: Dax for this addition to this thread.