What Is Left Unsaid: Reporting the South African HIV Epidemic

by Anton Harber (Editor), Kristin Palitza (Editor), Natalie Ridgard (Editor), Helen Struthers (Editor)

Overview

Combining journalism with research to present an analysis that is broad in scope yet focused on the key issues, this publication is a multiauthored investigation into HIV reporting in South Africa. Ranging from in-depth quantitative and qualitative research documents to radio and television transcripts and candid interviews, this collection offers insight into the history and struggles of South African health politics and gives a voice to those whose voices are often not heard against the din of political controversy surrounding HIV. As it demonstrates the role the media has played in shaping the ideas about and the approach toward the virus, this discussion will be of particular interest to academics in both health and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781920196257
Publisher:	Jacana Media
Publication date:	05/01/2011
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Anton Harber is the Caxton Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a columnist for Business Day and Beeld. He is the cofounder and former coeditor of the Mail & Guardian, the editor of The A–Z of South African Politics, and a director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. He is the recipient of the Pringle Award for Press Freedom and the codirector of the HIV/AIDS & the Media Project. Kristin Palitza is a writer, journalist, and foreign correspondent. Her work has been published by many newspapers and magazines worldwide, including Austria’s Wiener Zeitung, Germany’s Neues Deutschland and Rheinische Post, South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, and Switzerland’s Südostschweiz. Natalie Ridgard is a consultant for a range of international and nongovernmental organizations and has worked on the social aspects of HIV for more than a decade. She has published several research articles, including “Sustaining the Coverage” in the Rhodes Journalism Review. She is the former coordinator of the HIV/AIDS & the Media Project. Helen Struthers is a director and cofounder of the Anova Health Institute, the cofounder and codirector of the HIV/AIDS & the Media Project, and a former member of the executive management team at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit.