For the International Children's Day of Broadcasting, the young producers combined interviews with experts on AIDS, sketches and skits on HIV prevention, conversations with celebrities, songs and dance.
Other prominent groups, too, have been making an effort to turn the H.I.V./AIDS-prevention conversation inward.
Pitfall prevention: Have a conversation with your son -- preferably early in the college-prep process and definitely in a relaxed tone -- to ensure he appreciates the role the application essays play in determining admissions decisions.
Findings suggest that interventions designed to normalize HIV prevention behaviors using conversations about HIV can decrease HIV-related stigma.
Increasing HIV testing rates, HIV prevention behaviors, and conversations about HIV risk behaviors, can increase awareness that these behaviors are socially common and acceptable.
The following study looks at the effects of an intervention designed to increase HIV prevention messages and conversations about HIV to improve rates of HIV testing and decrease sexual risk behaviors in Peru.
In truth, the debate over statistics is an exercise in hair-splitting that misses the point -- even the lowest estimates are so unacceptably high that tabling a conversation about prevention while awaiting more data is irresponsible.
Pitfall prevention: In the same conversation as in #2 (the only pass you get in offering even limited advice!), inspire your son to invest as much energy in thoughtfully writing the supplementary essays -- and even the short answers to prompts about, say, notable activities or impactful books -- as he does in crafting his personal statement.
Yes, I am well aware at the controversy my opinion piece caused, and I've taken some heat from within the gay community for my thoughts, but in the end, what that piece did was help start a conversation about prevention and HIV.
Walking the halls of state capitols and Capitol Hill was a lonely and isolating experience; the conversations on prevention were met with wrinkled expressions of confusion as though I were speaking a foreign language.
