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  • Title: AIDS and journalism. Infinitely tougher job.
    Author: Karkaria B.
    Journal: Integration; 1994 Dec; (42):20-1. PubMed ID: 12319129.
    Abstract:
    Balanced, purely informative stories about HIV/AIDS in India rarely see the light of day. Denied access to information from the medical and administrative establishments which want coverage exclusively on their terms, reporters are unable to understand the complexities of the AIDS pandemic and report in an informed, responsible manner. Editors find AIDS stories too depressing or offensive to conservative readers, and therefore relegate the stories to less important slots or encourage only sensational articles which, for example, have freely exposed people infected with HIV. The public will lose their fears about HIV/AIDS only when they learn that AIDS is an issue of public health, not of public morality. To that end, the press in India has, however, made some positive contributions. In particular, the press exposed the contamination of the blood supply, the plight of prostitutes, the existence of bogus social workers profiting from the pandemic, and how HIV-positive patients are kicked out of private hospitals once their HIV status has been determined. Now that funds are being made available for AIDS research and prevention, journalists are urgently called upon to not simply count the number of infected individuals, but to play the socially responsible role of watchdog, ensuring that funds against AIDS are being correctly spent.
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