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HIV/AIDS Sociology
African Americans portrayed as powerless victims of HIV/AIDS in ethnocultural magazines
September 19th, 2006
African Americans are portrayed as powerless victims of HIV/AIDS in ethnocultural magazines. "Mainstream magazines and other media have been found to both reflect and influence existing values and beliefs regarding health and medicine. Little is known about how media directed toward specific cultural or other market groups may differ," investigators in Canada report. According to J.N. Clarke and colleagues at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, "The present study examined how HIV and AIDS are portrayed within a specific ethnocultural medium, the two highest circulating magazines directed toward African American and African Canadian...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2006-09-19)
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