Media Watch
Scrutinize wins award
South Africa’s Scrutinize campaign can add another trophy to its cabinet after it bagged a Pan-African health communication award.
The campaign’s “animerts” and outreach programmes were commended for their use of multiple media channels in reaching its audience.
Graduates step ahead
As the year comes to an end medical graduates from across the country have the next phase of their life pretty much set out. The new bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice has finally come to effect as the first round of graduates are registered on the Health Professionals Council as reported by The New Age.
Fostering the youth
Adopting a child that is not mentally and physically healthy is not always a priority for parents. The number of children in state care who are infected or affected by HIV are a testament to this.
Dreary HIV reporting by TNA
An article in The New Age this week rattles off a list of HIV-related ambitions and advice in the form of various quotes collected during a TB and AIDS campaign held in the North West.
DA launches Campaign Coercion
The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) most recent HIV testing campaign blatantly ignores the ethical principle of informed consent, preying on and coercing socio-economically vulnerable South Africans.
If the news is anything to go by, Helen Zille is up to her eyeballs in HIV-related controversy yet again, after the Western Cape launched a campaign offering substantial cash prizes to people who screen for HIV.
And while some off-the-street respondents interviewed in an article for today’s (Tuesday’s) edition of The Citizen feel that it is a good way to motivate people to test, the ‘HIV testing lotto’ is essentially unethical because it robs people of the ability to make the decision to test with full knowledge of what that decision might entail.
In other words Zille’s harebrained scheme violates what is best expressed by the ethical principle of informed consent, that is, knowing full well what you are saying “yes” to.
