Conveying Concerns: Media Coverage of Women and HIV/AIDS

A report on the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls, as seen by female journalists in developing nations. The report contains a collection of articles and scripts by journalists from Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Romania. Issues are explored such as vulnerability to the epidemic, mother-to-child transmission of HIV, the impact of HIV/AIDS on girls and female migrants, and girls and women living with HIV/AIDS.

Chapters Include:

• Women's Special Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS
• Women and AIDS: Being Good Is Bad for Your Health
• Are You Positive? Women at Risk
• The Agony of Being African and Woman
• Calling the Shots
• Mother-to-Child Transmission
• Report on AIDS
• HIV/AIDS—Silence and Deafness: The Hlabisa Hospital
• Young People and HIV/AIDS
• Current Problems
• Are You Positive?
• Migration and HIV
• Filipinos and AIDS: It Could Happen to You
• HIV/AIDS—Silence and Deafness: Rural Africa
• Improve Our Behavior Ourselves
• Etc...