Leveraging the power of the media to combat HIV/AIDS

James, M.; Hoff, T.; Davis, J.; Graham, R.

Health Affairs 24(3): 854-857

2005


ISSN/ISBN: 0278-2715
PMID: 15886181
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.854
Document Number: 254159
Improving HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, especially those focused on young people, is a key challenge in the fight against the pandemic. Since the mid-1990s the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has partnered with U.S.-based media companies on comprehensive HIV/AIDS campaigns. This paper outlines the unique public education model that it is using, and how Kaiser is expanding this work globally by working with some of the largest media companies in the world to undertake new initiatives in Russia and India.

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