We review local media coverage of HIV and support South African media practitioners covering HIV issues. Whether you’re a journalist, script writer or radio producer, here you’ll find the information and contacts you need to produce healthy media. The website is maintained by the HIV & AIDS Media Project.
The settlement was initially called Kgotsong, which means "place of peace" in Sesotho.
But after prostitutes moved in and started conducting their trade in broad daylight, residents have renamed the place Dinaweng - which implies that it is a place of sex.
… Read moreThe Department of Women, Children and people with with Disabilities is to focus on the role of culture in the battle against HIV and gender violence.
… Read moreOn Saturday the Egyptian army unveiled a "miraculous" device it claims will detect and cure Aids and hepatitis.
But the device named C-Fast, looks… Read more
A shocking 80 000 babies are born to schoolgirls under the age of 18 in South Africa annually and illegal abortions are spiraling up.
Health Minister… Read more
Media should highlight the efficacy of life-saving HIV treatment in… Read more
An article in The New Age brings critical advances in TB… Read more
It is critical that HIV reporting strives to be topical, innovative… Read more
When it comes to making front page news HIV may not always seem… Read more