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MEDIA ANALYSIS AND HIV/AIDS

Daniel Wolfe, Columbia University

Prevention Justice Seminar

November 1, 2004

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Daniel Wolfe is a PhD candidate at Columbia School of Public Health. He is the author of an analysis commissioned by the UN Millennium Project on how drug policies fuel the international HIV epidemic, as well as Men Like Us, the "Our Bodies, Ourselves" inspired health guide for gay men.

He is the former Director of Communications for Gay Men's Health Crisis and a journalist whose writing has appeared in the Village Voice, the Nation, the New York Times, The Guardian and POZ.





Recommended Readings
Media Analysis and HIV/AIDS



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I. ‘You Just Signed His Death Warrant’ AIDS Politics and the Journalists’ Role by Laurie Garrett, in Columbia Journalism Review, Nov/Dec 2000.
www.cjr.org/archives.asp?url=/00/4/garrett.asp

II. AIDS: Hiding in Plain Site by Kai Wright. In Columbia Journalism Review, March 2004.
www.cjr.org/issues/2004/2/wright-aids.asp

III. "AIDS at 21: Media Coverage of the HIV Epidemic 1981-2002" An overview. Supplement to the March/April 2004 Issue of Columbia Journalism Review. www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=32230

IV. The Boundaries of Blackness – AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics. Cathy J. Cohen.

V. Spin Works by Robert Bray. A Media Guidebook for Communicating Values and Shaping Opinion.

VI. Prime Time Activism. Media Strategies for grassroots organizing. Charlotte Ryan.

VII. News release from Kaiser Foundation re. “AIDS at 21: Media Coverage of the HIV Epidemic 1981-2002" www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/pomr030104nr.cfm

VIII. Toplines from "AIDS at 21: Media Coverage of the HIV Epidemic 1981-2002". Kaiser Family Foundation/Princeton Survey Research Associates International. www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=32242