AIDS uncovered.
Around 5 million out of 45 million South Africans This is a list of notable South Africans with Wikipedia articles. Academics, Medical and Scientists
- Wouter Basson, Scientist
- Mariam Seedat, sociologist and gender advocate (1970 - )
- Estian Calitz, academic (1949 - )
are infected with
HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. , and the number is increasing. Yet the issue is slipping from local
headlines, according to a report by Media Tenor, a Pretoria-based
institute. During 2004 the coverage across all forms of media has
decreased to 1.2 per cent--0.6 per cent on television news, 1.3 per cent
in daily newspapers and 1.3 per cent in weeklies. 'Society'
and 'sport' scoop 32.1 per cent between them. According to
UNAIDS UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS in South Africa, the media have a crucial role to play in
educating the population, reducing stigmatization stigmatization /stig·ma·ti·za·tion/ (stig?mah-ti-za´shun)
1. the developing of or being identified as possessing one or more stigmata.
2. the act or process of negatively labelling or characterizing another. and stimulating
government action. With South Africa running out of burial space for its
AIDS dead, lives depend on editors and journalists ensuring that AIDS is
not old news.
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