Media Coverage of Women and HIV/AIDS

This report examines the HIV epidemic’s impact on women and girls from the perspective of women journalists. In July 2000, the Population Reference Bureau assembled senior journalists from ten countries for a seminar to discuss women and HIV/AIDS. The journalists subsequently produced special supplements in their newspapers and magazines as well as radio programs that highlighted local and international aspects of the epidemic. Excerpts from these supplements and programs are contained in this report. The articles and scripts are abridged and appear in five sections: women’s special vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, mother-to-child transmission, young people and HIV/AIDS, migration and HIV, and people living with HIV or AIDS. The articles were produced from various cultural perspectves and highlight the media's role in helping remove the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS.