Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem isn't public awareness, but to change behavior--and that's where community organizations must play the key role...
...public health experts disagreed, calling on the networks to promote the use of condoms and dispel myths about the disease's transmission...
...Television can motivate and reinforce condom use," said School of Public Health Dean Harvey V. Fineberg '67. He said the media can also reduce the social barriers to discussion of AIDS...
...said early descriptions of AIDS as "fatal," "mysterious," "out-of-nowhere," and "unknown" influenced the public's perception of AIDS. Later, television focused primarily on gay, middle-class white males for story material or photographed poor Blacks shooting crack in dark alleyways, stereotyping AIDS as a disease of drug abusers and gay men alone...
...interested in public service, this year's Career Forum offers some very useful opportunities. True, the Forum is comprised mainly of forprofit companies - unable to spend either the personnel or the money to attend such an event. Nonetheless, there will be agencies working on a variety of issues: housing (Committee for Boston Public Housing), health (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), international development (Peace Corps), human services (New York City Dept. of Personnel), and teaching abroad (World Teach...