Commentary & Opinion

Media Should Find New Ways to Increase HIV/AIDS Awareness, Prevention, Opinion Piece Says

From Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

May 12, 2006

The Caribbean Broadcast Media Leadership Summit on HIV/AIDS is to be "applaud[ed]" as a positive step in media involvement in addressing HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, members of the media should create "new innovative ways" to spread the HIV prevention message, columnist Jenique Millington writes in a Barbados Advocate opinion piece. The media, which have "the power to get messages through," need to be "more outspoken" about HIV/AIDS in order to "actively destroy" stigma that ostracizes HIV-positive people, Millington says. She adds that the media should "pu[t] a face to the virus" and help people to view those living with HIV/AIDS as "our brothers and sisters and treat them as the human beings they are" (Millington, Barbados Advocate, 5/11).

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Reprinted with permission from kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/hiv. The Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation, by The Advisory Board Company. © 2006 by The Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.

This article was provided by Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. It is a part of the publication Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report. Visit the Kaiser Family Foundation's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.

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