"The VIHsibilité Project": HIV-positive people in the Québec press and community responses

The VIHsibilité Project is a community-based action-research initiative that examines newspaper coverage of HIV/AIDS issues in Québec from 1988 to 2004. Using standard qualitative research methods, and in consultation with an advisory committee of people directly impacted by HIV/AIDS news coverage,...

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Published in:AIDS Care (Print) 2008-05, Vol.20 (5), p.596-600
Main Authors: Mensah, M.N., Waugh, T., Lavoie, R., Dumas, J., Bernier, M., Garneau, M.J., Giroux, C., Otis, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDS
AIDS/HIV
Attitude to Health
Biological and medical sciences
Canada
Community
Content analysis
Coverage
Cultural studies
Female
Gender
HIV
HIV Infections - psychology
HIV/AIDS
Homosexuality - ethics
Homosexuality - psychology
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human viral diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Male
Mass Media - ethics
Mass Media - standards
Media
Medical sciences
News
News Coverage
News media
Newspapers as Topic - ethics
Newspapers as Topic - standards
Prejudice
Press
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Public Opinion
Qualitative analysis
Qualitative Research
Quebec
Residence Characteristics
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Social Response
Sociocultural environment
Stereotyping
Stigma
Viral diseases
Viral diseases of the lymphoid tissue and the blood. Aids
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Summary:The VIHsibilité Project is a community-based action-research initiative that examines newspaper coverage of HIV/AIDS issues in Québec from 1988 to 2004. Using standard qualitative research methods, and in consultation with an advisory committee of people directly impacted by HIV/AIDS news coverage, the project discerns trends in reporting on HIV/AIDS and undertakes discursive content analysis of these, aiming to better understand in what normative ways seropositive people are represented in print media, and, ultimately, to reduce the stigma attendant upon HIV infection. Preliminary findings include indications that seropositive women tend to be represented markedly differently from men in the news.
ISSN:0954-0121
1360-0451
DOI:10.1080/09540120701867164