What's News: Perspectives on HIV/AIDS in the South African Media

This review offers insight into understanding the media response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The purpose of this review is to provide information that works to expand the development of an HIV/AIDS Media Advocacy Programme for South Africa.

The author expresses concern about the need for the media "to contribute more constructively to the conceptualisation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to be proactive in shaping societal and government response to the epidemic."

Contents

• Introduction
• Methodology
• HIV/AIDS and mass media reception
• The educative role of mass media
• Improving media coverage on HIV/AIDS
• Extent of International Media Coverage on Africa
• Coverage in African countries
• The communications environment in South Africa
• Extent and Content of coverage of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
• Improving media coverage of HIV/AIDS in the South African context
• Conclusion
• Footnotes
• Bibliography