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HIV/AIDS
Reports from University of New South Wales describe recent advances in HIV/AIDS
June 3rd, 2008
"In the early HIV epidemic, Western media coverage encouraged the idea that infection was linked to 'other' identities located outside the 'mainstream'; outside 'proper' heterosexuality. Today, however, HIV has become repositioned as a global heterosexual epidemic," investigators in Sydney, Australia report. "Analyses show that since the 1990s Western media have shifted away from blame and hysteria to an increasingly routinised reporting of HIV as a health story and social justice issue. But recent years have seen the emergence of a new media story in many Western countries; the criminal prosecution for HIV-related offences, and with it a reframing of old discourses of...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-03)
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