Party AIDS: what the newspapers said – undermining public health messages by reinforcing homophobia
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As a Maureen Koh said in her letter to the Straits Times forum, published 12 March 2005,
We have an Aids problem and two thirds of the afflicted are heterosexuals who can not only pass the infection to their spouses but also to their unborn children.
But what do we do? We focus on the one third – gays – to explain the sharp rise in new Aids cases last year.
And we blame the ‘epidemic’ on the annual party in Sentosa, ignoring the 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week activity that has also, by coincidence, mushroomed in the Joo Chiat and Geylang red-light districts.
