Page 15: the whole page is about health

• 500 words, motor-driven heart (researchers are working on it at Lübeck University)
• biggest government Alternative Treatments for International AIDS Inoculation Program: 14 million
• sterling pounds were donated by the British Government. They hope that other governments will follow
•  their example. Clinical testing will be at Oxford and Nairobi University.

Page 21, 100 words, Alzheimer disease will be soon curable as result of Yale research

Page 21 30 words short news, a Dutch doctor infected 8 patients with Hepatitis B without knowing about it.

October 26,Tuesday

Page 1, 400 words health reform (in adjustment to EU) is prolonged.

Page 5 200 words, support for diabetes patients does not increase. Social security pays only 70% of their

medication.

Page 17, 300 words: the 8^th district’s leadership is thinking on the location of .designated zone for prostitution.

page 31, 500 words, medical mistakes. 300 law suits every year.

Page 25 short news

• 60 words: drug raid, 18 out of 50 young people in a disco had used drug
• 60 words: cigarette smuggler was caught with cigarette of 61 million forints

October 22

page 34, 800 words, report on the leprosy village in Romania, the last one in Europe. Some villagers were

sent here even in the 40’s. Under the communist time they got government support now more funding is

coming from abroad. People here try to live a normal life, they even host relatives coming from outside.

October 28, Thursday

Page 5, 400 words, children do not obtain proper nutrition, not only in poor families, but it is also applies

to families who instead of giving lunch to children, give them money and the children spend this money on

sweets, snacks and sodas. According to the Foundation for Children’’ Nutrition, there are 20,000 children

in Hungary who practically starve, 130,000 do not get proper, healthy nutrition.

October 29, Friday

Page 10, 450 words, designated zone: according to the new law, settlements, communities with more than

 50,000 habitants where there is "systematic, mass prostitution", are obliged to designate a special zone

where prostitutes work. There is however difficulty with interpretation: no specific number is given for "mass"

prostitution. Most towns, cities state they do not have mass prostitution and not going to designate a

prostitution zone. Only Jozsefvaros (8^th District) has a proposal for Budapest Local Government, the content

 of the proposal is strictly confidential: the Mafia is strongly interested in the place (presumably with intention

 to buy real estates).

Page 27, 100 words, TB is spreading, according to a Harvard University research program funded by George

Soros tuberculosis can be found in more than 100 countries, including North America and Europe. The reason

 is patients do not take or do not take enough medication. New versions of TB bacteria developed that are

immune to TB medication.

October 30, Saturday

Page 54, 400 words, work instead of unemployment benefits should be given, this is the opinion of Csepel

local government (21^st district) where the unemployment rate is one and half time as high as that of Budapest

and every fifth child lives in poverty. It is not easy to give work to all unemployed, solution is still to be found.

Page 54, 300 words, most homeless of Budapest live near Lehel Market, the article mentions the number

(150), the situation of the homeless. Most of them prefer this district (13^th district) because there are most

homeless supporting institutions here.

November 2, Tuesday

Page 9, 1,000 words short report on the situation right after the smoking law became effective. Smokers are

separated for the first time in public places in Hungary: smoking can be allowed only in smoking areas, all

institutions, public places are obliged to designate smoking area.

Page 7, 60 words, information about the allegedly negative (or neutral) effect of mobile phone towers on health.

November 4, Thursday

Page 23, 400 words Brothels can be built in the designated zone. These institutions could be kept and

registered in a way that would not violate the New York agreement.

November 6, Saturday

Page 5, 200 words, when it come to purchasing medicines, people don’t buy the cheaper types.

Page 36, 500 words, prostitutes can draw the map: the designated zone should be soon marked, otherwise

prostitutes would invade the not prohibited places or would involve in substitute activity to make up for the

missing income.

November 8, Monday

Page 5, 500 words drug preventing program in school. 30% of secondary school students have

tried some drugs. The program costs 70 million forints.

Page 15 Health page with various medical news

50 word news: biotechnology laboratory led by Robert Gallo, Maryland University identified HIV-blocking

molecules that can be found in HIV negative persons who are highly exposed to HIV.

November 9, Tuesday

Page 29, 70 words, Telephone Doctor Service held an open family day, people came over and took

part in different medical examinations.

Page 25, 300 word: drug use in the army. 40% of soldiers use drugs while they are on a leave. The article

talks about consequences for the soldiers when it turns out that they have taken drug. The National Health

Protection Institute and army’s leadership have launched together a program against drugs and AIDS. A

prevention training program is given to medical doctors for 3 months.

November 10, Wednesday

Page 25, 150 words unexamined prostitutes: only 12 prostitutes went to the obligatory medical examination,

 it is due to three factors: 1) lack of information, 2)the exams cost money, 3)they are not anonymous.

Szolnoki Andrea, Vice-mayor of Budapest urges alteration of this regulation.

November 11, Thursday

Page 29, 100 words, ironic article about inhibition of vending cigarette for the young under 18.

Page 30, 200 words, Family day for diabetes patients at the Almássy Community House

Page 35, 800 words, report on the bitter life of young men from Romania who came to Budapest with the

hope of a better life, ending up selling themselves as prostitutes for money to tourists on the Danube

riverside hotels. Empathetic article.

November 12, Friday

Page 21, 300 words, prostitute school in Antwerp, where they get training in self-defense, laws, medical

knowledge on diseases. The school is funded by charity organizations.

Page 23, 400 words, compulsory lung X Ray. The fine could be thousands of forints if someone does not

 go to the exam after second notice. (Lan Anh’s remark: I don’t think they can fine anyone as I have never

got letter saying I should go to this or that hospital for lung X Ray).

November 15, Monday

Page 31, 300 words, designated zones would be established from budget of Budapest districts, in order to

have prostitution-free Budapest for the most part of the city.

November 16, Tuesday

Page 25, 300 words designated zones will be marked by February 2000. The project should be reviewed from

 the point of view of New York Agreement. Within 300 meters there cannot be no church, cultural or health

institutions.

Page 29, 450 words, importance of drug-prevention . Young people do not trust the grown ups, they don’t talk

 to them about drug problems.

November 17, Wednesday

Page 4, 300 words, protest against use of psychological (personality) tests in selecting judges (lawyers),

mainly because of MMPI items concerning sexual life.

Page 5, 600 words, registration of prostitutes: from September 1999 prostitutes are obliged to appear on

medical examinations. The first exam among others consists of HIV, Hepatitis tests. Those with negative

test results will obtain a certificate that is valid for 3 months with personal identification, the examination

costs 25,000 forints.

Page 9, 1,000 words, erotic exhibition attracts thousands of people. There is need for sex shops and services.

 Opposite opinions about the topics.

November 18. Thursday

Page 33, Health page

• 600 words: stroke and its symptoms, establishment of stroke centers. Home care would be important,
• rehabilitation programme at home could help a lot.
• 300 words, parents should tell their children about inherited diseases in the family, bread cancer,
• allergy, diabetes, color blindness and so on.

Page 5, 60 words, drugs-free prisons is the goal to reach. Last year there were 17 cases of drug use in

prisons in the country.

November 20, Saturday

Page 8, 300 words: the government has officially nominated the person in charge of the so-called designated

zones. The actual location of designated zone is still to be found.

Page 19, 100 words, the Infancy Foundation gives 23 million forints to hospitals.

Page 19, 20-word news: two Hungarian were caught in Milan with a bag of 20 kg heroin, another

Hungarian man was arrested in Ferihegy (Budapest) Airport with 0.5 kg cocaine.

Page 37, 100 words, Kobanya (10^th District) does not want to have designated zone in their district.

Page 23, 600 words, DNS chip against diseases: as results of a scientific program researchers found

that sick cells can be cured by gene alteration. The article gives an introduction to genetic therapy.

November 22, Monday

Page 5, 180 words, Conference at Hajnal Imre Health College on depression. This disease can be cured.

Avoidance of stigma, prejudices against depression patients is important.

Page 25, 40 words, two young persons died in drugs overdose.

November 24, Wednesday

Page 5, 150 words, at least 37% of secondary school pupils have tried drugs. Alcoholic beverage

 consumption is also mentioned.

November 25, Thursday

Page 1, continued on page 5, 250 words, the article talks about hemophiliac patients. 40-50% of them die.

 In 1998 they suit the Hungarian Government 4 times for careless blood transfusion.

Page 22, 300 words, AIDS contagion in Russia, in the last one year number of HIV positive people has

been duplicated in Russia, now this number has reached 23 thousand. There have been 445 AIDS death

cases. This increase is partly due to the opening of borders and drugs traffic. In Kaliningrad half of the

prostitutes are HIV positive.

Page 23, 200 words, "Everyone is suspicious", the police can stop and have a drug test on any one on the

road. Constitution lawyers protest, saying it is a mere exercise of power.

Page 23, 30 words, 3 drug dealers are taken into custody.

Page 29, 500 words, the article talks about support for children with Williams syndrome.

Page 40, 700 words, can inoculation save life? The question is whether inoculation can weaken the body.

There is no inoculation against AIDS and EBOLA.

November 26, Friday

Page 8, 500 words, sex tourism is banned in Cuba. A huge source of income is cut.

Page 10, 400 words, drug using cases. Since the introduction of the stricter law on drugs, it is not easy to

 know who uses drugs. Doctors have to keep all information coming from the patients confidential, so no

information on drugs using will be public from them.

Page 10, 100 words, in the EU countries 6,000-7,000 people die every year in drugs overdose.

Page 13, 300 words, VIP mysteries, commentary on the new Kubrick movie, Wide Shut Eyes, sex,

relationship, unanswered questions.

Page 28, 100 words, in the EU countries there are approx. 1.5 million drug additives. At least 3-4 million

people have tried marijuana. Every year 5,000-6,000 kg heroin is seized by the police and customs.

Page 29, 100 words, short news: in Vietnam there are 16,175 HIV positive people, 2,907 AIDS patients and

1,512 people have died in AIDS. In Ukraine there are 29 thousand HIV infected people, at least according to

official records. In fact, there might be 20 thousand more.

Page 34, 50 words news, teachers could help their pupils with drug problem. The Sun Service Foundation

organises 60 hours training for teacher to equip them with knowledge and skills in dealing with drug problem

among school children.

November 29, Monday

Page 24, 500 words, obesity costs a lot: in the EU every third person has overweight, in Hungary, 58% of

men and 62% of women are overweight. In 1997 in Hungary 12 billion forints were spent to cure diseases

connected to obesity.

Page 25, 60 words, short news, new dialysis center was opened.

November 30, Tuesday

Page 26, 150 words, infection in Miskolc Hospital: two women who had gone through Caesar operation while

giving birth to a baby were infected by a bacterium that can be found on human skin. Both women were

operated by the same doctor. The director of the hospital says there is no reason to suspect a series of infection.

Page 26, 100 words, beeping contraceptive: a new device, a beeping card has become very popular among

those women who take contraceptive pills. The card is given free by a firm which produces contraceptive pills.

The card will beep at a given time if the woman forgets to take the pill.

Page 20 , 800 words, legal regulations concerning employing the disabled should be updated, at the present

moment they make it difficult for the companies employing disabled, handicapped people to make any profit.

Appendix 4D: Media Analysis – Polish Sample (prepared by Dr Kwiatkowska)

Period of time: July – December 1999

Sources:

• Two of the most popular newspapers: local "Kurier Poranny" [5 entries] and central "Gazeta Wyborcza" [5 entries]
• One weekly: Wprost [5 entries]
• One women weekly magazine: Naj [1 entry]

Selection rules:

• HIV/AIDS as a main topic;
• HIV/AIDS only mentioned

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