Oh i am getting married soon

Well, if someone tells you this," I am getting married soon." What will your response ?

For me, it is a mixed feeling. On the happy note, they are trying to put the two heads together. If the heads word well, the neighbour will have a happy time as the sweet smiles will flow from one corner to the next.

However, if it turns ugly and the the two heads go separate ways after the horney moon. The neighbour will have hard time in sleeping. Bricks and shoes will flying in every corners. The cursing of words are draining to drown the world.

According to the report, by 28 of Feb 2006, the world population hits the high of 65 billion people. This fugure may not shock you. will it ? But just think of the employment and food problems, it will make you restless for months.

Fine, it is none of my business. If you have no global concept, it is the 'none of my business' however, if you know how big the earth and the food shortage, then you may have to do more research of it. Till you have sore eyes looking at the monitor screen.

I don't know what to say, but just like to share this notion:

This section contains information on the currently available male and female contraceptive methods. The material includes reference material and training tools such as presentation graphics with trainer notes.

http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/1fp/1methods/1methods.htm

Is the population control a personal basis or a national level ?

Read:

Politicians Don't Understand Sex: Mr Condom
South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - August 30, 2002
One of the reasons Aids was such a low priority at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was possibly that it had to do with sex, and a lot of political leaders did not understand sex, UNAids ambassador Mechai Viravaidya said on Friday.
Viravaidya, nicknamed "Mr Condom" in his home country Thailand, also said President Thabo Mbeki, not his deputy Jacob Zuma, should be heading South Africa's national Aids council.
Speaking in Johannesburg at the summit, where leaders have been criticised for not putting the pandemic higher on the agenda, he said politicians making decisions on Aids policy should be people who had sex, enjoyed sex and did not deny it existed.
"They are embarrassed by the condom when in fact they should be embarrassed by Nike (running shoes) because there's more rubber in Nike.
"We've got to face the facts that unless we teach people about sexuality, proper understanding, and the only lifeaver we have is the condom, then you can't get very far.
"So at least leaders probably have to start using condoms and understanding it (sex) better."
Viravaidya, who has served in the Thai cabinet, and has played a major role in his country's innovative anti-Aids programmes, said there were also many leaders who simply did not deserve to be leaders.
"So if we get rid of them and work harder we might have (success) at the next summit... Stop this denial: we are allowing so many people to die unnecessarily."
He also said every country needed its prime minister or president to head its national Aids co-ordinating body "because it's a bigger fight than any of us have ever fought".
This had happened in every country that had made a difference in the battle against the disease, including his own.
"I call on all leaders who wish... to be remembered as leaders to chair their national Aids committee."
Aids was "total war", and could not be beaten by any one department or ministry.
"And so you have to have everyone involved. Health is important, but on the prevention side, the economic side you need other ministries.
"And the only person who can order different ministries around is the prime minister. So he or she, or president, needs to chair the Aids issue."
Asked about South Africa, where Zuma chairs the low-profile National Aids Council, Viravaidya said: "Well, maybe ask the president to sit in on it, and let him become chair: he'll probably enjoy more and do more good."
UNAids director Peter Piot said he was disappointed that the issue of fighting Aids as a central part of promoting sustainable development was not getting more attention at the summit.
"It was certainly there in the initial text, but it got watered down," he said. Addressing a plenary on Friday morning, he said Aids was the shadow that hung over all the summit's deliberations.
"If we continue to allow Aids to drain human resources at an increasing rate, sustainable development will be impossible. Quite simply, if you don't survive, you cannot develop."
This crisis would not only significantly undermine progress towards sustainable development, but would even "underdevelop" some of the worst affected countries.
By the most basic measure of development -- life expectancy -- Aids had already erased 50 years of progress in the worst-affected countries.

Well, I admire Mr Mechai Viravaidya's hardwork to reduced the population of Thailand by using the simple method.


Mr. Condom' Takes On an Old Foe


Los Angeles Times August 1, 2004 Thomas H. Maugh II Thai Sen. Mechai Viravaidya, who headed Thailand's aggressive condom promotion campaign, is back in public life following a three-year retirement. Mechai's condom campaign is credited with sharply reducing HIV among sex workers. The government also started producing AIDS drugs and stepped up efforts to prevent vertical transmission. As a result, new infections plummeted from 143,000 in 1991 to 19,000 in 2003. But indifference and ignorance may now eclipse that achievement. "The new generation hasn't heard much about HIV," said Mechai, 63, who earned the nickname "Mr. Condom." "They think it is gone… I thought I had done my job and I became an ordinary citizen, but nobody continued the momentum as strong as I had hoped." Government HIV/AIDS spending fell from $82 million in 1997 to $25 million last year. Now Thailand's epidemic has matured, spreading to more diverse groups and making detection and prevention more difficult, according to a recent UN Development Program (UNDP) report. Among its finding: *Just 20 percent of sexually active Thai youths are using condoms consistently, and half of new infections occur among young men and their wives or girlfriends, the report said. *Only 15 percent of gay men use condoms consistently, and up to 17 percent of men who have sex with men are HIV-positive. In the mid-1990s, 4 percent were infected. *HIV prevalence has shot up among IV drug users, from 30 percent in 1994 to 50 percent. Treatment and methadone access are limited for IV drug users, and there are no needle-exchange programs. The government's recent drug crackdown is making addicts reluctant to seek treatment, said Paisan Suwannawong of the Thai Drug Users Network. The crackdown, echoes UNDP's report, "could be priming an ideal climate for a more extensive spread of the virus."






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