Invisibility of World AIDS Day

Wednesday, December 14. 2005

Is World AIDS Day losing visibility? In a year when more people died of AIDS and more people were infected with HIV than ever before, World AIDS Day came and went two weeks ago with little attention.

The New York Times, as one proxy for the media, mentioned World AIDS Day only five times this year, which is the lowest number (and half the average) of the last ten years. A Google News search shows "World AIDS Day" mentioned 5100 times, about 1/8th the level of "terrorism" or 1/30th the level of "Iraq". At the very moment when we would hope global AIDS to be receiving top billing, the international media appears to have lost interest.

Posted by Jim Cashel in Policy at 02:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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