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Impact Data - Health Cassettes

Country

Mali

Access

Save the Children Fund estimate that about 33% of the population had been reached by the cassettes. The song on the First AIDS cassette was among the most requested songs to the radio station.

Knowledge Shifts

After the first cassette was produced and aired, a study on AIDS was conducted and it was found that 95% of the sample had heard of AIDS, and the principle source of information was the radio.

Practices

On the subject of Guinea Worm, the clinic reported a steady decrease in the number of cases after filtration techniques were described from 760 cases in 1993 to 104 in 1996, this decrease was attributed to both the cassettes and to the education efforts made by local health education workers. 50% more tapes were pirated than were sold, showing great popularity.

Contact

Save the Children, UK

1 St John's Lane

London
EC1M 4AR
United Kingdom (UK)
Tel: 020 7012 6400 or 0044 20 7012 6400

Related Summaries

Source

Mary Myers Summary of Save the Children Fund Health Cassettes - Mali. 1998 also: Myers, M. 1997 ‘Media Monitoring Visit to Senegal and Mali March/April 1997' ICHR Radio Partnership, Geneva. Save the Children Fund ‘Rapport de l'Enquête CAP sur les MSS et le SIDA dans la Region de Mopti Nove. 1994' SCF Mopti, Mali.


Placed on the Soul Beat Africa site July 15 2001
Last Updated July 22 2009



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