Alicia Keys and Bono are leaders in the fight against AIDS. The two have devoted hours and millions of dollars in proceeds to finding a cure. They sat down with “Good Morning America” to speak about the advances in the field and how close we are to a conquering the epidemic! “No matter who you are, we can all agree that we want an AIDS-free generation,” said Keys. “We have the possibility to be the generation, to have a legacy that we can say we created an AIDS-free generation.” RELATED: Today is World AIDS Day; Help Stop the Spread of HIV & AIDS!
After ‘DISconnected’ premieres Monday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on MTV, Vinny will take part in an MTV News special discussing digital abuse. By Eric Ditzian Vinny Guadagnino Photo: MTV News Long before Vinny Guadagnino was beating the beat on “Jersey Shore” (and beating off the attention of club-hopping ladies), he was a gawky kid getting picked on by high school girls. “I was really awkward-looking and I got bullied a lot — especially by the hot girls,” he recently told MTV News. “I was cool enough to sit at the popular table with the hot girls, but at the same time, I wasn’t the most popular kid at that table. They would make fun of me and it would really hurt me, because you don’t want the girls thinking that you’re a loser.” How times have changed. But Vinny hasn’t forgotten what it’s like to be bullied, and he’s made an effort to use his celebrity to bring attention to the issue, taking part in MTV’s A Thin Line campaign to empower kids to identify, respond to, and stop the spread of digital abuse. On Monday, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the channel is set to premiere “DISconnected,” a film about online bullying. After the movie, Vinny will take part in an MTV News special to discuss these issues. Though he’s now a celebrity with almost 2 million Twitter followers, he still encounters digital abuse. Not long ago, he posted a YouTube video with some of his young cousins in the background and, as he put it, “some hater called a little girl in the background fat.” “I’ve learned not to let it affect me, but there are other people that can be affected by it,” Vin added. “That’s why I want to share a message with young kids that whenever someone is pointing the finger at you, they have a ton of problems themselves that are making them do that. That’s their own insecurities talking.” Be sure to tune in to “DISconnected” on Monday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on MTV, and check out the movie’s Facebook page. Plus, stay tuned after the movie for MTV News’ Q&A special.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/20/pope-oks-condoms-in-some-cases-cites-use… Pope Benedict XVI has said that in special cases, such as that of prostitutes trying to prevent HIV infection, condoms could be justified under Catholic ethical thinking, especially if their use leads to an awareness that engaging in such a “banalization of sexuality” is morally harmful. More at the link. —————————— Current.com staff update by sbacker: In a new book Pope Benedict says that the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS may be justified in certain cases, a statement that could start of sea change in the Vatican's attitude to condoms.In excerpts published in the Vatican newspaper the pope cites the example of the use of condoms by prostitutes as “a first step toward moralisation” even though condoms are “not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection.”While some Roman Catholic leaders have spoken in the past about the limited use of condoms in specific cases to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS as a lesser of two evils, this is the first time the pope has mentioned the possibility himself in public.To justify his change on the matter Pope Benedict caused surprise by taking as his example a male prostitute who used a condom to protect his client. But in so doing he avoided breaching the Catholic church's opposition to artificial contraception as birth control is not an issue in male homosexual relations.But what remained unclear was whether the pope was starting to relax the chur's policy on the use of condoms in heterosexual relations, if only by couples in which one partner was HIV-positive.Last year, the pope caused an international uproar when he told journalists taking him to Africa that condoms should not be used because they could worsen the spread of AIDS.The new book, called Light of the World, is made up of Benedict's responses to questions by German Catholic journalist Peter Seewald over a month of meetings at the papal summer residence. added by: jubal
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Today marks the largest gathering of heads-of-state in the US since Franklin Roosevelt hosted a gathering during WWII. The topic? How to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. President Obama called it, “an indication of how deeply concerned everybody should be with the possibilities of nuclear traffic,” adding “I think at the end of this we're going to see some very specific, concrete actions that each nation is taking that will make the world a little bit safer.” There's already been some progress. Ukraine's President, Viktor Yanukovich, vowed to get rid of all of his country's highly enriched uranium within two years. This summit comes on the heals of the signing of a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) between Obama and Russian President Demetry Medvedev. The treaty still needs to be ratified by the US Senate. added by: lucasives
Michelle Trachtenberg, Asher Roth, All Time Low and Boys Like Girls join MTV’s A Thin Line campaign against digital abuse. By Jocelyn Vena Asher Roth Photo: Johnny Nunez/ WireImage MTV News special “Sexting in America: When Privates Go Public” is set to premiere on Valentine’s Day as part of MTV’s A Thin Line campaign to stop the spread of digital abuse.
