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An Insight to the Development of Communication Strategy for Polio Eradication in FATA Pakistan

House-to-house social mobilization for Polio Eradication in FATA Pakistan

INTRODUCTION:

 

As we know, 80 percent of the population of Pakistan is living in rural areas, and the overall literacy rate is not more than 45 percent. Keeping in view the above facts, most of the population have sufficient knowledge about the Malaria, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B (HBV)& C virus, but, unfortunately, a very large number of Pakistani population know less about Polio!

Uno más uno (One Plus One)

Uno más uno  (One Plus One)
Uno más uno (One Plus One)

I met Luis Fernando Gómez nine years ago. We first met in a small meeting room at IDEA (the Antioquía Development Institute), to talk about the Uno Más Uno Foundation, which he had founded a few months earlier. He was searching for institutions that could help support his efforts to prevent blindness and other types of visual impairment in children. He himself had been condemned to blindness due to a delayed diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa.

A Pragmatic Approach for Polio Eradication in FATA Pakistan

Polio NID September 2008
Polio Vaccination Family Card System

With compassion, commitment, and courage, members of the Rotary Club of Peshawar, Pakistan, recently helped immunize children in one of the most remote and dangerous parts of the world.

Members of the club took part in the country's 15-17 September [2008] Subnational Immunization Days, reaching children in a federally administered tribal area in North-West Frontier Province near the troubled Pakistani-Afghan border.

Taking a step forward - bringing students from Medical Colleges for Polio Eradication

Blog about polio communication activities in Balochistan

Balochistan is 45% of the geographical area of Pakistan and only 5% of the population. More than 75% of the population of Balochistan lives in rural areas, and it has one of the weakest healthcare infrastructures in the country. The tertiary care hospitals in the provincial capital Quetta are considered crucial settings for the polio eradication initiative. Mobile teams are deployed in the hospitals during polio campaigns, and each of these hospitals has an immunization center where children can get polio drops and routine immunization shots.

Education in the Dock

Education in the Dock
Education in the Dock

Few issues are present in the collective consciousness with an assessment as favourable as education. As time passes, this privileged perception only grows and multiplies because within it is supposedly contained the economic solution for the poor or the continued success for those of greater fortune.

 

In keeping with that belief, the state and institutions of all kinds are on the same path, consigning to education much of the responsibility for our future and, in particular, equitable and sustainable development that we have not yet reached.

Development is important, but where to?

Development is important, but where to?
Development is important, but where to?

Before we work for development, we should ask ourselves where the development should lead to, where does our own development lead to, where does the traditional development of the other country lead to, and which values have made their development different from ours?

 

Social Innovation Counts

Brazil
Social Innovation Counts

Where will be the children of Edison Flores, the young man who died ten years ago lying on a steep street of Comuna 8, one of the leaders of the bloc of the AUC Metro [El Bloque Metro - a paramilitary organisation reported to be of the extreme right that organised itself in the late 1990s in Medellín]?

HIV Cure Claims, A Joke?

HIV Cure Claims
HIV Cure Claims, A Joke?

In Buea, Cameroon, 26 year-old Lydia lives in one room house with her husband. She has been living with HIV for at least seven years now. As she stares at her sleeping, beautiful baby girl who was born HIV negative, she speaks of her firm belief that the only way to control HIV is by taking antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. Her unconditional acceptance of ARVs comes after two encounters with people who failed to deliver on their promise of a cure for HIV. One of is the owner of a modern herbalist clinic in the outskirts of Buea.

How can ICTs improve the lives of children and youth living in cities?

Technology Salon NYC
Technology Salon NYC

From Linda Raftree’s blog site "Wait… What? bridging community development and technology" on March 29 2012:

“At the global level, a very small percentage of development funding goes to urban spaces, yet hard-hitting issues impact many of the urban poor: lack of tenure, lack of legality of land, informal settlements, lack of birth registration and civil registration in general, waste disposal, clean water, politicizing of local authorities and more. Can new technologies be a solution for some of these issues?

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Television

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Multimedia Library on Sexual and Reproductive Rights

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual and reproductive rights because of an increase in adolescent pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and reproductive health issues that are threats to people's development, health, and lives. "In the majority of...

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual abuse because "sexual abuse is one of the worst human rights violations committed against women and children, a type of aggression against the integrity of their bodies, minds and spirits. As an information centre, we believe that citizens should have...

As part of Foundation Puntos de Encuentro's strategy against commercial sexual exploitation of adolescents (CSEA) (2011-2013), Alerta y Pilas Puestas ("Alert and Be Ready") was launched in 2012 in an effort to build the capacity of adolescents as well as actors in their direct surroundings to contribute to the reduction of the stigma and...

"At a time when media landscapes are rapidly changing, journalism today needs to clearly show its added value for public interest."

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"...this is where Cinema Corner has a part to play by creating a forum for the often-unheard voices of women and girls whose lives are being devastated by sexual violence or illegal abortion or human trafficking."

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Issues of Support, Resources, and Empowerment

"In the case of our experience, the involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS prompted us to develop this study as one of the local HIV resource organization, as our unit of identity, told us that 'given the discrepancy between the demographics of HIV cases in Vancouver and the demographics of our current members, what are the educational and...

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Evaluation of the Campaign Violence against Women

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Materials

Necesitamos poder hablar

This episode of Sexto Sentido, a Nicaraguan TV programme produced by Puntos de Encuentro , deals with the issue of sexual abuse. Hablar cambia todo (Talking Changes Everything) deals with a young girl who is sexually abused by her grandfather, unbeknownst to her mother and father. The...

I Want to Fly: Dating Without Violence

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Multimedia Library on Sexuality, HIV, and Violence

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexuality, HIV, and violence because "sexuality is an essential part of one’s wellbeing and development..., yet in the 21st Century violence against women, adolescent pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted illnesses are on the rise and threatening...

Multimedia Library on Sexual and Reproductive Rights

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual and reproductive rights because of an increase in adolescent pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and reproductive health issues that are threats to people's development, health, and lives. "In the majority of...

The organisation Puntos de Encuentro compiled this multi-media library on the issue of sexual abuse because "sexual abuse is one of the worst human rights violations committed against women and children, a type of aggression against the integrity of their bodies, minds and spirits. As an information centre, we believe that citizens should have...

"At a time when media landscapes are rapidly changing, journalism today needs to clearly show its added value for public interest."