Role of Press in Health Education

How often have you noticed the press (print, TV and online) insensitively report health-related and human interest stories?
Most of this careless reporting is due to lack of proper media sensitization and domain knowledge. Let me give you an example. Have you often read and heard the term AIDS patient in news reports? Since AIDS is not a disease but a syndrome a person cannot be termed as an AIDS patient. The right usage is HIV positive individual. This term not only addresses the person with respect but in general influences the society's attitude towards such persons.
Similarly, usage of words such as deaf, dumb, blind, retarded to address individuals should also be replaced with more respectable terms such as challenged, specially gifted etc.
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Role of Press in Health Education