Fight against AIDS: how the media take responsibility
From "HIV/AIDS Symptoms, Transmission, Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment"
14-Jun-2010
Study contrasts media response in provinces of Yunnan and Henan
(China) “This past year, very few people to use their names to conduct HIV testing or consultation.” Yunnan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a person in charge frowning. From January 1 this year, the Yunnan Province of the real-name system for HIV testing was introduced to enhance the behavior interventions for HIV or AIDS to enjoy the country’s “Four Frees and One Care” policy. However, due to fear of discrimination, many infected persons or the patient still uses the anonymous, so that CDC staff were unable to timely and being diagnosed as HIV-infected people to get in touch.
“The media and the public’s moral evaluation and discrimination makes it more difficult to bear than the disease itself. AIDS patients who would rather not have them care.” The official said the man.
Media attitude: not the same as in Yunnan and Henan
Xinhua News Agency Xiong Lei, senior editor for many years the study of AIDS reported that, despite the media coverage of AIDS has undergone a fundamental difference, starting to show characteristics of a job and embarked on the right track. However, “the current media coverage of AIDS there are still many problems. One of the biggest problem is discrimination.”