Rethink Resources

Here’s the weekly news round-up.

Recent survey in Canada suggests two-thirds of young women 16-24 aren’t using condoms with sex and forgetting to take the pill accurately too.

This past Saturday was World AIDS Day. This article talks about how racism and government inaction has led to the reality that African Americans who are 13 percent of the U.S. population but are 50 percent of those diagnosed with HIV each year and 50 percent of those who die of AIDS annually.

Speaking of crucial HIV prevention, New Jersey’s first legal syringe exchange opened this week.

This article talks about a Portland homeless and runaway youth worker who started her own business and hired youth. Now she’s helping more businesses train and hire youth in the community.

Lastly the feds brought a case against the husband of an Atlanta cop for producing child pornography and paying girls for photographing them. The police officer is in trouble too because it’s alleged that she destroyed evidence.