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Crisis or chronic: Misrepresenting the HIV epidemic
World AIDS Day coverage suggests subeditors might be out of touch when it comes to HIV’s status as a chronic but manageable condition. Two articles in the Star and The Citizen this week feature headlines, captions and pictures that seem to indicate some editors are still stuck in a time when HIV and death were inextricably linked. While the journalism in the articles was HIV savvy, drawing distinctions between HIV and AIDS and maintaining that people living with HIV can live life to the full, the elements that subeditors are generally responsible for (headlines and photographs) did not reflect what living with HIV is like today.Hospice now a child-care unit as Aids deaths decline
Cotlands, a non-profit children's welfare organisation, recorded zero HIV-Aids related deaths in the past three years.Page 1 of 1 pages
