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| Greetings {FIRST_NAME}, | April 18, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislation and Governance Positions of DC Council At-Large Candidates on Abstinence Education, Same Sex Marriage, HIV prevention and other issues Video Statement by Tom Brown, Alan Page and Bryan Weaver on how they will address HIV/AIDS, Teen Pregnancy, and family breakdown in DC: Click Here Issue 1: Abstinence Education: Tom Brown, Alan Page & Bryan Weaver video: Click Here Issue 2: Definition of Marriage: Tom Brown & Alan Page: ULTRA Teen Choice Survey: Click Here Joshua Lopez, Patrick Mara, Vincent Orange: Video: Click Here Most other candidates: Click Here Issue 3: The District's HIV prevention situation: Tom Brown, Alan Page, & Bryan Weaver video: Click Here Other Issues: Tom Brown, Alan Page, and Bryan Waver on the DC budget crisis, school truancy, why more youth are abstaining in DC and nationwide, school vouchers, what the DC Council can do to spread HIV awareness, and opening and closing statements: Click Here (Scroll down). A special election for the DC Council At-Large seat vacated by Council Chair Kwame Brown, will be held on Tuesday, April 26th. Be sure to vote for the candidate of your choice! Turnout is traditionally low in special elections in DC, and every vote will count. If you are not registered to vote, and you are a US citizen and a DC resident, you can now register to vote at your polling place on election day. Click here to view the election guide and to find your polling place. Ward 4 and Ward 8 will also elect members to the State Board of Education.
Your Tax Dollars at Work The Rubber Revolution? Last November, the DC Department of Health (DOH) launched the Rubber Revolution website. According to the site:
Really? If condom distribution is working so well in DC, why have rates of HIV infection and sexually transmitted disease infection been increasing? Certainly not because there have not been enough condoms distributed. Condom distribution in the District increased from 600,0000 in 2007 to 3.2 million in 2009. Yet at the same time, the rate of HIV infection increased by 9.2 per cent. So it appears that there is a correlation between more condoms being distributed and higher HIV infection rates. Ed Green found the same effect in his research in Africa; using condoms seems to give a false sense of security. Countries with the highest rate of condom use also have the highest rates of HIV infection. Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa have the highest rate of condom distribution, and also the highest rate of HIV infection (20 percent to 35 percent among males ages 15 to 49) Although 42 percent of DC high school students report never having had sex, and 69 percent have not had sex within the previous three months, the District does not spend any money to increase the number of youth who are abstaining from sex. The vision of ULTRA Teen Choice is that
A condom-centric approach to stopping HIV and STD infection in DC has been a dismal failure. It is time to form a youth HIV Prevention Corps that leverages the immense resource of youth who are abstinent or who have returned to abstinence. Why are we wasting more of taxpayers hard earned money funding programs that continue to promote the same old failed methods? Legislation and Governance Update on Legislation to allow Notaries to perform marriages in DC Councilmember Phil Mendelson reports that "A hearing was held on this legislation last year. I did not move it. At this time, no action has been scheduled on the reintroduced bill." However, Councilmembers David Catania, Mary Cheh, and Jack Evans, with co-sponsors Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle (who is running for the permanent Council At-Large Seat, and Marion Barry. Use the link below to compose and send your own email to all DC Councilmembers and key staff members: Read the Washington Times article: Click here Read the bill: Click here Here is a commentary I wrote about the bill: Click Here Use the ULTRA Teen Choice email tool to email all councilmembers and key staff: Click here to go to the email tool: and call your concilmember and tell them that you do not want marriages to be performed by notaries: Click here for the names and phone numbers of all councilmembers: Programs and Events HIV/AIDS, pregnancy prevention, and relationship education Presentation
ULTRA Teen Choice is a premier provider of HIV/AIDS prevention services and peer counselor training that is abstinence centered and evidence based. Call Richard at 202-544-5081 to schedule sessions for your school, church or organization. Click Here for more information. STAR (Students Teaching Abstinence & Responsibility) Guides are young adults who practice sexual abstience. STAR Guides teach other youth about the benefits of abstinence, and serve as positive role models. To apply to be a STAR Guide, visit our website and fill out a volunteer application: Click Here.
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