Hollywood actor 'with HIV': How the media should be responsibly reporting
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Accurate reporting benefits public health, dispels myths, undermines prejudice and increases understanding.” This is how HIV should be accurately reported: Use accurate terminology HIV stands for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. NAT say that due to breakthroughs in effective sexual health treatment, “AIDS is no longer an inevitable later stage of HIV infection in the many countries where treatment is accessible”. Misconceptions about HIV - how it can and cannot be transmitted Fear around HIV isn’t helped by malicious headlines about “womanising” actors and characterising it as a contagious disease will only cause needless panic. “Outing” HIV-positive people Deborah Gold, Chief Executive at NAT, told The Independent that the scare-mongering around people living with HIV is reminiscent of the way celebrities and politicians were outed by tabloids in the past.
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