Advocating Creatively by Natalie Millman

Author:Natalie Millman [Millman, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-03-14T18:30:00+00:00

that makes sense without the assumption that the fundamental purpose of politics is to protect the rights of persons. Concentrations of power do not always respect the rights of persons. If one denies this fact one gets: concentrations of power always respect the rights of persons. This does not correspond with our experiences. It is obvious that if we want to protect the rights of persons we have to organize in as small concentrations of power as possible. Since the fundamental purpose of politics is to protect the rights of persons it is of decisive importance to politics that we seek to organize in as small concentrations of power as possible. It is clear that we can not leave it to others to protect the rights of persons. The notion that it is possible to elect a small number of people to protect the rights of a vast number of people is absurd, because here we are by definition talking about concentration of power, and thus about a concentration of power. And we know that concentrations of power do not always respect the rights of persons. It is clear that if one is conscious of persons and the rights of persons one must be concerned with politics. It is clear that if one is a person and thus concerned with politics and conscious of the rights of persons, it becomes of decisive importance to organize in as small concentrations of power as possible. It becomes of decisive importance to find ways to live and behave which correspond to our knowledge of persons, the rights of persons, etc. It is clear that this is our most important task as our whole existence is threatened.

H IV /A ID S Y O U T H A D V O C A C Y in D .C . By C arm el Pryor “You’re HIV positive.” These words were spoken to a young man who was only 17. I was there when he got the news. It was a devastating experience, but I had a breakthrough. I realized how media could be a force for good.

As the Social Marketing Manager at Metro TeenAIDS (MTA) – a nonprofit focused on eradicating HIV among youth in Washington, D.C. – my job was to create a public health marketing campaign to influence youth ages 13 – 24 to use condoms and get tested for sexually transmitted infections. To be successful in this role, I needed to fully understand the complexities of how HIV manifested in the nation’s capital.

In the Shadow of the White House

A concentrated epidemic is defined as a prevalence rate that is greater than 1% in the general population. In March 2009, the D.C. Department of Health announced that the HIV rate in D.C. was 3%. This was a state of emergency.

During my time at MTA, the District’s rate was higher than West Africa’s, on par with Uganda’s, and some parts of Kenya. Almost 1 in 10 D.C. residents between the ages of 40 and 49 had the virus as well as 1 in 100 youth.

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