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31 August-6 September 2012—HIV News Update.
Featured:
- The birds, the bees and HIV: The New Age doesn’t factor in South Africa’s high HIV prevalence when reporting on plans to teach young children about sex.
- Papers consider HIV risk and rape: Two articles in the Daily Sun and The Star touched on HIV risk in connection with rape this week, bucking a long-standing trend of rape reporting which maintains a deafening silence around the virus.
In the news:
- Tuberculosis runs riot in Pollsmoor (M&G)
- Turn empty platitudes into action (M&G)
- HIV takes toll on child development (M&G)
- Emergency care is an acute need (M&G)
- Ensure NHI is fit for women (M&G)
- I sell my body for food! (Daily Sun)
- Doctors lined to drugs theft (TNA)
- Strange virus ate son to death (Daily Sun)
- Bust ARV thieves now (TNA)
- Prostitutes call for legalisation of sex industry (TNA)
- Schools battle teen pregnancies (TNA)
- AIDS spreading fast across Eastern Europe (TNA)
- Twenty years of work has helped the Aids battle (TNA)
- New HIV directory (TNA)
- HIV-positive men a third more likely to die (The Star)
- HIV Update: Surrogate breastfeeding (DRUM)
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7-13 September 2012—HIV News Update
Featured:
- HIV is still in the news-if we make it so: By exposing the illegal trade of government-funded formula milk, journalism initiative Groundup provides proof that HIV remains a newsworthy issue, all it takes is a tapped-in journalist.
- Positive role models passe?: Has the (HIV) positive role model run its course, making way for a style of story telling which takes the normalisation of HIV to new levels?
- Breast not to harp on about ARV side effects: This week The Star’s Verve section proves that uncomfortable side effects are not the sole preserve of ARVs.
- Daily Sun is sex ed savvy: The Daily Sun shows The New Age how it’s done by reporting on Save the Children's sex education plans with more savvy.
In the news:
- Circumcision issue cuts two ways (M&G)
- Skeletal health system sitting on cash pile (The Times)
- Rural hospitals in terminal crisis (M&G)
- Department of Health is failing SA's rape victims (The Star)
- Know your status, mums-to-be urged (Daily Sun)
- Plan to reduce HIV-TB by 50% (TNA)
- HIV update: HIV-911 (DRUM)
- "I was forced to have the op" (DRUM)
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14-20 September 2012—HIV News Update.
Featured:
- Sowetan trivialises child sex work: Comparing the Sowetan’s and The Times’ very different approaches to the same article on child sex workers reveals the Sowetan’s trivial treatment of a very serious issue.
- Sub-editors make headlines: A clear, concise and informative article is sullied with a bizarre and misleading headline, drawing attention to slip-ups in the newsroom.
- Still separated: Teen pregnancy and HIV: If you read the article titled ‘Girls start to have sex at 14, says study’ in Friday’s (7 September 2012) Sowetan you might be forgiven for thinking that teen pregnancy and HIV infection are unrelated.
In the news:
- Women ignored in the tragedy at Marikana (M&G)
- Light shines at end of HIV tunnel (M&G)
- Beauty for gay pride! (Daily Sun)
- Stop this rot-Unions (Sowetan)
- Madam and Eve cartoon (The Star)
- Hannes makes a difference! (Daily Sun)
- Red tape bars access to new TB drug (The Star)
- HIV update: Stribild (DRUM)
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28 September-4 October 2012—HIV News Update.
Featured:
- Media ignores dome debate: Where HIV news is concerned, theSowetan is the media’s saving grace this week. While all other publications chose to turn a blind eye to the heated debate around the distribution of condoms in schools, the Sowetan threw it’s weight behind the story, making it front page news for two days running.
- TNA connects the dots: gender inequality and HIV: The New Age makes the connections between gender inequality and women's increased vulnerability to HIV crystal clear, effectively communicating the urgent need to address imbalances in gender power dynamics.
In the news:
- UNAIDS appoints Ash as international goodwill ambassador (TNA)
- Beating cancer at its own game (M&G)
- One doctor where there should be 14 (The Star)
- Evelina an HIV hero to judge (The Times)
- Film hopes to attract medics to danger zones (TNA)
- Making a positive contribution to people (Sowetan)
- HIV update: HIV and TB (DRUM)
- Aids counsil restructured (TNA)
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