AIDS continue to die, yet many young people are still completely unaware of the characteristics and risks of this disease. It is no doubt that the more disconcerting since emerged from the meeting held at the closing ceremony of the journalism award named after Riccardo Tomassetti, science journalist who died in 2007 at age 39, who has devoted much of their activities on the disclosure of HIV . During the meeting, attended by associations involved in the AIDS, experts and journalists, were presented the results of a study that examines the perception of the virus from users who exchange information on the network through blogs and forums. The data are significant: about 4100 messages devoted to the disease during the period under review, the majority is concentrated in the forum of associations, while only a small part is present in blogs, spaces for conversation less "specialized". On the Internet, also referred to AIDS is much less than, say, cancer: in relation to 3500 messages dedicated to cancer, only 600 are those dealing with AIDS-HIV. "This means - said Cristina Cenci, anthropologist and coordinator research - usually in the Web 2.0 AIDS is not apparent either as topical or as an area of \u200b\u200bsocial concern about health. Do not talk about AIDS because they assume it is the responsibility of the individual and the community. " Although in Italy every day 11 people are infected with HIV and are at least 40 thousand people living with HIV who do not know of it, the virus is seen as something alien and distant, confined to underdeveloped countries or associated only with conduct at risk "as the exchange of infected needles or homosexual relationships. Because today you are in this situation? Stefano Vella, director of the higher of Health in Rome, tried to make the point: "One reason is to think that by now, given the effectiveness of new drug combinations, you are faced with a disease 'cured' and less 'dramatic'. This is partly true, but we must maintain a high level of alert because the therapy, although today it is easier to take and less toxic, it is complex and must be pursued for a lifetime. We must continue to keep the spotlight on AIDS because the disease is still widespread, and because the band is most at risk young people, namely the future of us all. " It is clear that a role must be played by the media, often in the dock charged with doing "bad" information or not at all. Not in all cases, however: for this reason it was decided to establish an award for young journalists who have had the merit of keeping his attention on services through print, radio, television and websites, and the next edition, blogs and social networks. For the first edition of the award a jury of journalists has reviewed more than 500 services, all, according to the States, "high quality" proof that the correct information can and should do much to improve the knowledge of the disease and hence avoid , increased dissemination and late diagnosis. CLEAR PRIOR (LUMSA NEWS)
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