A simple forgetting of the negation and here is a campaign of struggle against AIDS completely distorted. Thirty years ago, misconceptions about the transmission of the HIV virus were rife and it is not this latest Indonesian awareness campaign that will contradict them.
“AIDS can be transmitted by sneezing, through sweat, a mosquito or by going to the swimming pool”
A typo and then an inattentive error at the time of printing transformed the message “the AIDS cannot be transmitted “in” AIDS can be transmitted “… by sneezing, through sweat, a mosquito or by going to the swimming pool. A problematic information since it is totally false …
The printer would have forgotten to validate the content with the local health authorities then launched the prints of these posters, distributed by the hundreds in suburban trains connecting the capital Jakarta.
660,000 Indonesians infected with the AIDS virus
The authorities and the printing press issued a public apology and the posters were taken down the next morning, making way for the correct version. However, Indonesia needs to double the importance of the message in a new campaign to fight misconceptions and educate Indonesians as much as possible about how AIDS is transmitted.
Recall that in Indonesia, 660,000 people are infected with the AIDS.
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