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Ignorance, the HIV fear factory

By JournAIDS An article from The New Age (TNA) shows that only through actively learning about HIV can we address the fear, stigma and negative attitudes that continue to cling to the virus in South Africa.
Continue reading | 31 August 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: fear, hiv awareness, hiv education, south african context, stigma, the new age

Building the bigger bogeyman

By Kim Johnson

HIV…Or even worse…AIDS. The media and the public often shy away from these topics because they are (incorrectly) associated with serious lingering illness and death.

HIV has overtaken illnesses like consumption (as TB was called prior to its official discovery in the early 1800s) and the plague and to become the specter of sickness that haunts the 21st century.

HIV therefore calls forth both fascination and revulsion. In the media it is either covered as a great tragedy or ignored completely.

Recently it would seem that the danger and fear which is associated with AIDS and HIV is exploited in order to illustrate that other conditions should occasion even more fear and awe.

Continue reading | 27 July 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: art, hepatitus, newsworthy, south african context, statistics, the citizen