TEDxChange - Mechai Viravaidya - Using Condoms to Fight Poverty
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Mechai Viravaidya is the Founder and Chairman of the Population and Community Development Association and is a widely acclaimed leader in the fields of public health, education and community development. Since 1974, he has worked to initiate community-based family planning services and groundbreaking HIV/AIDS prevention activities throughout Sou... Read more
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- -: TEDxChange - Mechai Viravaidya - Using Condoms to Fight Poverty
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Mechai Viravaidya is the Founder and Chairman of the Population and Community Development Association and is a widely acclaimed leader in the fields of public health, education and community development. Since 1974, he has worked to initiate community-based family planning services and groundbrea...
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- -: Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place
September 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxChange, Thailand's "Mr. Condom," Mechai Viravaidya, walks us through the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny -- and very effective -- talk about condoms. TEDTalk...
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- -: Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo
September 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com HIV is a serious problem in the DR Congo, and aid agencies have flooded the country with free and cheap condoms. But few people are using them. Why? "Reformed marketer" Amy Lockwood offers a surprising answer that upends a traditional model of philanthropy. (Some NSFW images.) ...
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- -: President Obama on World AIDS Day
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The President announced new commitments to fight AIDS in the US at the "The Beginning of the End" event sponsored by the ONE and (Red) campaigns. December 1, 2011.
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- -: Dan Savage and Amy Richards on Abstinence-Only Sex Education
April 25, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/08/Amy_Richards_and_Dan_Savage_in_Conversation Advice columnists Dan Savage and Amy Richards argue that abstinence-only sex education does not adequately instruct teens on the realities of sexual health. This program contains sexually explicit language. ...
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- -: "Mr. Condom" on Birth Control Promotion in Thailand
November 7, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/01/Mechai_Viravaidya_HIV_Prevention_and_Health_in_Thailand AIDS activist Mechai "Mr. Condom" Viravaidya discusses creative methods for birth control promotion in his native Thailand, developed in order to deal with a 1970s overpopulation crisis. ----- ...
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Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Mechai Viravaidya talks about how Thailand succesfully launched a country-wide movement for the use of condoms to promote family planning and HIV protection.
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