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Sexuality in the Media: Emerging Issues in Africa Published by Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre @ARSRC 2006 Cover design and layout Action Health Incorporated Printed by Fineprint Ltd. 01-7766576, 979475 ISBN: 978-37944-1-8 Sexuality in the Media: Emerging Issues in Africa
Sexuality in the Media: Emerging Issues in Africa Foreword 4 Monitoring Media Coverage Of Sexuality: An Introduction Richmond Tiemoko and Arit Oku-Egbas 6 Media Coverage Of Sexuality In South Africa Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala And Sarah Lucy Kearney 11 Coverage Of Sexuality Issues In The Print Media In Kenya Roseanne N. Njiru And Charity .K. Kinya 31 Print Media Coverage Of Sexuality Issues In Egypt Gamal I. Serour And Ahmed R. A. Ragab 52 Print Media Coverage Of Sexuality Issues In Nigeria Eno Blankson Ikpe And Serkinat Lasisi 73 Biography of Researchers 137 As a mass media educator, researcher and practitioner for over a decade, I have had the privilege and opportunity to produce many journalists, health communicators, media researchers, community health communicators, educators and researchers. In teaching Communication and Public Health, Message Design and Behaviour Change course, to the MPH students of our College of Medicine over the years, I have also experienced the power of mass media in attitude formation, and behaviour change and/or modification. Furthermore, I have also found out that many of the health problems including HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted infections which we experience daily in Africa are mainly due to ignorance. This is a result of lack of relevant and proper information on the prevention of these diseases by the Mass Media. The Mass Media also fails to provide early warning signals. As the axiom says, “Information is power to any meaningful health system” in fact it is according to Akinfeleye, (2003) the engine oil that lubricates the heart of the people in attitude formation, which must precede Behavioural Change. Generally people agree that the health of a nation is the wealth of that nation, but I hasten to add that the ill-health of a nation is the death of that nation. Sexuality is a muffed concept to define from the African viewpoint. In general, the more you try to define sexuality from any perspective the more you get confused, the more you move from the level of understanding to the level of confusion. But the more you try to “explain” sexuality (see Appendix A) the more you may tend to appreciate the value of this book titled Sexuality in the Print Media: Emerging Issues in Africa which is being put out by the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre in Lagos, Nigeria under the leadership of Dr. Richmond Tiemoko.
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