Reporting HIV in Papua New Guinea: Trends and Omissions from 2000 to 2010

Authors

Trevor A. Cullen, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Pacific Media Centre

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Communications and Arts

RAS ID

10175

Comments

Cullen, T. & Callaghan, R. (2010). Reporting HIV in Papua New Guinea: trends and omissions from 2000 to 2010. Pacific Journalism Review. Vol 16 (2) p. 163 –176. Available here

Abstract

This article presents the findings from a longitudinal content analysis on the reporting of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) in Papua New Guinea’s two national newspapers—The National and Post-Courier—in 2000, 2005 and 2010. The authors tried to answer two key questions: Did press coverage of the disease increase and did the topics change or remain the same? Data from the content analysis showed that coverage of the disease increased significantly during the ten-year study period, and that the framing of the disease moved beyond representing HIV as purely a health story to one that was linked to socio-economic conditions and cultural practices. The feature stories gradually showed more sensitivity to people living with HIV, while they recognised and challenged the social stigma still associated with the disease in much of the country

DOI

10.24135/pjr.v16i2.1040

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