[socialactionfoundationforequity:2637 HIghly objectionable public notice about HIV infected person !

[Dr Rajesh Gopal]

 

 

Dear All,   A highly objectionable public notice about an HIV infected person has appeared in today's MIDDAY on page 5.   http://www.mid- day.com/epaper/ index.htm (also attached to this mail) A 'responsible' newspaper of Mumbai, Midday has acted in utterly bad taste and has evinced unsound judgement ,the moment it was decided by themto print(WITH PHOTOGRAPH !!!) such a public notice . We all  feel very strongly about the issue and as an enlightened citizen/as an HIV programme implementers struggling to fight the second epidemic of stigma and discrimination, we must voice our concern to the newpaper by sending a feedback at  http://www.mid- day.com// contact.htm There has to be ZERO TOLERANCE to any such (even if inadvertent) acts.   In camaraderie,   Dr.Rajesh Gopal. __._,_.___ __,_._,___

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[Loon Gangte]

The publisher and the media people sued for this.
This completely unacceptable.
Loon

On 15/05/10 5:48 PM, "Dr Rajesh Gopal" <dr_ra...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear All,

A highly objectionable public notice about an HIV infected person has appeared in today's MIDDAY on page 5.
 

http://www.mid- day.com/epaper/ index.htm <http://www.mid- day.com/epaper/ index.htm> (also attached to this mail)

A 'responsible' newspaper of Mumbai, Midday has acted in utterly bad taste and has evinced unsound judgement ,the moment it was decided by themto print(WITH PHOTOGRAPH !!!) such a public notice .

We all  feel very strongly about the issue and as an enlightened citizen/as an HIV programme implementers struggling to fight the second epidemic of stigma and discrimination, we must voice our concern to the newpaper by sending a feedback at  http://www.mid- day.com// contact.htm <http://www.mid- day.com// contact.htm>

There has to be ZERO TOLERANCE to any such (even if inadvertent) acts.
 
In camaraderie,
 
Dr.Rajesh Gopal.
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