Seminar helps raise media’s role in HIV/AIDS prevention
A seminar to collect suggestions for a
set of principles for best press practices in HIV/AIDS prevention and
control in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on November 5.
A seminar to collect suggestions for a
set of principles for best press practices in HIV/AIDS prevention and
control in Vietnam was held in Hanoi on November 5.
At the seminar, co-organised by the Central Committee for Propaganda and Education and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), journalists from several central and local newspapers and a number of television channels discussed and pooled their ideas for a common code of best practices when conducting information and education activities in HIV/AIDS prevention campaign, to stamp out discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS.
The seminar also put forward recommendations for journalists writing news items on the issue.
Vietnam is now home to around 140,000 people with HIV, mainly from the ages of 20 to 39. The HIV infection rate amongst men is four times higher than that of women and the number of men with HIV accounts for over 82 percent of those infected.
Provinces and cities that reported the highest rates of HIV/AIDS at the end of 2008 include Dien Bien, Son La, Hanoi , Thai Nguyen, Yen Bai, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
Together with strong information campaigns and more education about HIV/AIDS prevention and control, Vietnam has carried out many programmes that have provided health care and treatment for HIV/AIDS victims.
At present, thousands of people are receiving treatment and have access to free consultations and testing services./.
At the seminar, co-organised by the Central Committee for Propaganda and Education and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), journalists from several central and local newspapers and a number of television channels discussed and pooled their ideas for a common code of best practices when conducting information and education activities in HIV/AIDS prevention campaign, to stamp out discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS.
The seminar also put forward recommendations for journalists writing news items on the issue.
Vietnam is now home to around 140,000 people with HIV, mainly from the ages of 20 to 39. The HIV infection rate amongst men is four times higher than that of women and the number of men with HIV accounts for over 82 percent of those infected.
Provinces and cities that reported the highest rates of HIV/AIDS at the end of 2008 include Dien Bien, Son La, Hanoi , Thai Nguyen, Yen Bai, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
Together with strong information campaigns and more education about HIV/AIDS prevention and control, Vietnam has carried out many programmes that have provided health care and treatment for HIV/AIDS victims.
At present, thousands of people are receiving treatment and have access to free consultations and testing services./.
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