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IN THE NEWS: Shuga’s sweet success
No city reveals its charm in the trip from the airport, but the driving is usually a sign of its character. Approaching a traffic circle, the drivers of Niarobi lean over their steering wheels with great alertness and move slowly into the first gap.IN THE NEWS: Saftas, from sex to soaps
Another year,, another perplexing selection of Safta nominees...While I fully comprehend that it is a laborious process, as has been outlined by the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) in the past - I struggle to find it reflective of an industry as a whole. especially when certain channels go largely ingored. A case in point would be Mzansi Magic, which produces a plethora of local showsAgony Aunts: Love triangles are also HIV’s ‘Bermuda’ triangles
While agony-aunts have traditionally offered us an objective, sympathetic and supportive shoulder to cry on, they should embrace and use their platforms to spread the word on HIV prevention.
Despite blatant evidence that correspondents are engaging in unprotected sex with more than one partner at a time (termed multiple or concurrent partnerships or MCP), very few agony aunts address the risk of exposure to HIV lurking in the trysts of their correspondents.
Thankfully Move!’s agony-aunt Sis Anne is breaking the mould.
Sies, Sowetan for failing to address safe sex angle
The Sowetan’s borderline-pornographic coverage of police officers bonking (in their words) certainly has, as the editor predicted, got the nation talking.
But forget drawing any real attention to police negligence or failures of the system, the gratuitous material got tongues wagging about one thing more than any other - sex.
And this is not necessarily a bad thing. In the context of our HIV epidemic, it is about time we have a public and open debate about sex and particularly about risky sex.
But this is not it.
Soaps and tabloids make top team!
The ‘people’s paper’ and local soap operas are making good on their potential to be a formidable HIV awareness team.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.Page 1 of 1 pages
