World Aids Day 2022: Equalize
Communicating HIV/AIDS: Critical ideas in health communication
Discourses about HIV/AIDS in news media, gossip magazines and health communication articles, have shaped the beliefs of generations of publics globally. For HIV/AIDS prevention to be successful, health communication geared towards relational accountability, cultural understanding and behavioural change should scaffold political and legislative actions on a national and global front.
To this end, this general collection of Communicatio : South African Journal of Communication Theory and Research, in partnership with other journals in the Taylor and Francis stable from different geographical regions, presents a geo-political and socio-cultural overview of intellectual engagements with these discourses spanning 20+ years of HIV and AIDS communication globally.
By and large, the articles contained in this collection show the complexity of social and cultural factors in combating HIV and AIDS from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Read together, these articles make a powerful case for embracing epistemological and socio-political conviviality towards equalising the policy and behavioural change arena for combatting HIV and AIDS.
Edited by
viola c milton(University of South Africa)