Statistics and Research – Media Watch

Balancing Acts: HIV reporting and the facts

An article in today's edition of The New Age (TNA) which reports on multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP) presents a somewhat one sided view of the different perspectives on the role of MCP in the HIV epidemic.
Continue reading | 13 July 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: balance, discrete multiple partnerships, journalism, mcp, multiple partnerships, the new age

Two sides to every story: Sexy and scary stats need equal attention

The Sunday Sun reports the sexy but not the scary stats of the Men’s Health and Women’s Health sex survey.
Continue reading | 22 June 2011 | 0 Comments

Taking the tribulation out of interpreting medical trials

Coverage of microbicide trials has at times been characterised by hostility and cynicism on the part of journalists. This is mainly a result of their misunderstanding the technical ins and outs of clinical trials.
Continue reading | 20 June 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: clinical trials, female initiated hiv prevention, journalism, microbicide gels, research, tenofovir

Sexy headlines fail to climax

The final phase of clinical trials to test the effectiveness and safety of the Tenofovir anti-HIV gel have been given the green light. Various newspaper reports on the event have featured misleading headlines and misreported the facts around the study.Binder1.pdf
Continue reading | 15 June 2011 | 0 Comments

The Devil is in the Detail

An article in The Star, tells us the who without the why and the how.
Continue reading | 23 May 2011 | 0 Comments
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