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Under our “Quick Navigation” banner below, we have set up a new “World AIDS Day” section. We want to encourage you to participate in these activities that will be Webcast live around the globe on Friday, Dec. 1st and Saturday, Dec. 2nd:
1. Youth awareness events in 50 countries and across the U.S.
2. Major PeerCorps training sessions for you and your friends.
Join our effort and we will add your name and the photos of the events you are planning for all the world to see. Click here for Volunteer Form

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Mexico Blog: Guadalajara and Environs
Dr. John's Personal Blog	By host on 7/3/2006

Dr. John explains the danger of HIV transmission to young teen couple in Tlaquepaque market Dr. John walks and works in Guadalajara in Jalisco state. A year ago, Dr. John was set to work with street youth in Mexico City and Belize City (Belize) but had to cancel due to an emergency with his elderly mother (see Barbara). When informed by his travel agent Dorothy that he would lose the entire value of his earlier purchase if not used by early July 2006, Dr. John made an impromptu visit to central Mexico at the end of June. (There was also enough money left over for him to buy a round trip ticket to attend the upcoming International AIDS Conference in Toronto in August where he is presenting his new research on the growing youth..

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Dr. John is featured in a televised Korean rock concert against AIDS
Dr. John's Personal Blog	By host on 5/24/2006

Dr. John was featured at a major rock concert for youth that was broadcast on Korean TV. He spoke about his belief in peer-led education to the Korean youth.

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South Korea and AIDS
Dr. John's Personal Blog	By host on 5/20/2006

I have been in South Korea for a week as the guest of the Korea Federation of HIV/AIDS Prevention. This small but hospitable country is in the news but not about AIDS. According to the official figures only 4,000 cases of HIV/AIDS exist -- a very small number out of a population of 48 million (North Korea denies they have any problem at all but it is known that peasants forcibly returned from China and young military recruits who visit sex workers have some exposure to HIV). Yet what do these numbers signify? Some researchers and colleagues in Geneva and Cambridge argue that the low numbers are only the tip of the iceberg. The truth of the matter is that we can only see the obvious, not what is hidden...

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