Canadian: Hiv Non-Disclosure

canadian: The most striking revelation of this report was the grand scale of stereotyping and stigmatizing by Canadian media outlets in their sensationalistic coverage of HIV non-disclosure cases, said Eric Mykhalovskiy, a York University sociology professor, who leads the team, according to Toronto Star. It upsetting to read myths masquerading as news and repeating the theme of how black men living with HIV are hypersexual dangerous others. To mark World AIDS Day on this month, a team of Canadian researchers recently released the pioneering study identifying a clear pattern of racism toward black men in the reporting of HIV non-disclosure in Canadian newspapers. This approach not only demeans journalism, but it inflames racism and HIV stigmatization, undermining educational and treatment efforts. Of those reports 68 per cent, or 1,141 of the articles, focused on racialized defendants. Based on the database of Factiva, an English-language Canadian newspaper articles from 1989 to 2015, researchers from York, University of Toronto and Lakehead University identified 1,680 reports of HIV non-disclosure cases. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.