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Using music and comics, Community Media for Development (CMFD) Productions, together with music group Sigauque Project, are implementing the project Creative Arts for Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention - Music and Comics in Chamanculo in Maputo, Mozambique. Launched in January 2012, the objective of the project is to promote HIV/AIDS awareness among the youth, while changing attitudes towards protection and preventative methods.

Programme Experiences - May 23 2012 - 4:27am

Launched in July 2011, the Grassroots Female Communicators Association (GRAFCA) works to build the capacity of village leaders in the Songea Rural District, Tanzania, to challenge discrimination and lead an anti-stigma campaign surrounding HIV/AIDS infection and treatment through educational and empowering workshops held in and around rural areas. GRAFCA is a non-profit organisation created by female journalists and communicators interested in and committed to the development of rural communities, and is supported by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC).

Programme Experiences - May 17 2012 - 7:29am

This 77-page report shares findings of an assessment of how HIV and AIDS, as well as other development issues, are featured in journalism curricula at four academic institutions in South Africa. Commissioned by UNESCO and conducted by the African Democracy Institute's Governance and AIDS Programme (Idasa-GAP), the assessment explored how journalism teaching prepares students for covering development challenges.

Studies - May 2 2012 - 11:57am

This 80-page manual, the eighth in the Called to Care Toolkit, is designed especially for use with young people aged 10 to 15. The manual takes a participatory approach to teaching and learning, using role plays, case studies, games, stories, quizzes, Bible study, and artwork to promote discussion and explore critical life skills for young people. It is designed to empower young people to take charge of their lives in a positive way. It also includes sessions for parents and guardians on their roles in guiding, supporting, and educating young people.

Materials - Apr 23 2012 - 6:57am

"Because these media are trusted and seen as accurate by many, they play a vital role as voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programs are rolled out and scaled up as a key HIV-prevention practice."

Materials - May 1 2012 - 9:43am

"During the conversations, participants reflect on how they can improve their relationships and sexual lives without taking on extra lovers. The sessions are spread over 11 weeks. It is important to include the 11 weeks of time to allow people to think about what they are learning and to go through a process of change in their values, attitudes, and behavior."

Studies - Apr 13 2012 - 6:28am

This advocacy guide was conceived and developed as the result of a focus on building the capacity of religious leaders, including women of faith, to address gender-based violence (GBV) in their communities, particularly in relation to HIV. This publication was produced for review by the United States (US) Agency for International Development (USAID), funded and prepared by the Health Policy Initiative, Task Order 1.

Materials - Apr 13 2012 - 6:30am

Officially launched in November 2010, the GoodLife Campaign in Ghana is a multimedia campaign encouraging reflection about what makes life "good", linking personal happiness to the practice of healthy behaviours related to: maternal neonatal and child health; family planning; malaria prevention and treatment; nutrition; and water, sanitation and hygiene.

Programme Experiences - Apr 5 2012 - 1:28pm

Published in the journal AIDS (Vol. 24 Suppl. 4, pp. S70-S80), this editorial explores combination prevention, which is a mix of behavioural, biomedical, and structural interventions, ideally informed by evidence and based on human rights, that address both the immediate risks and the underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV.

Studies - Apr 13 2012 - 6:38am

Africa Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) is organising a 12-day workshop with the overall objective to give participants an orientation to a holistic approaches to sexual and reproductive health as part of the general health of people and development.

According to AMREF, by the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• define and reach a consensus on what sexual and reproductive health is;
• clarify perceptions of SRH issues;
• link reproductive health with the overall health system;

Event - Feb 2 2012 - 5:40am

Broaden Communication of Your Requests for Proposals (RFPs)

Page - May 18 2012 - 3:26pm

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Page - May 18 2012 - 3:29pm

BECOME A COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE ASSOCIATE

The Communication Initiative (The CI) is honoured to support your work, and we thank you for being engaged. We are positioned as a support process to your work as a social enterprise primarily funded funded by a small group of partner organisations. We are free and equitable and will remain that way for all network participants.

Page - May 23 2012 - 8:09pm

Organised by Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS), this course provides hands-on experience in designing, developing, and setting indicators for monitoring and evaluating an advocacy campaign and strategy designed to influence policy change.

Event - May 9 2012 - 8:08am

Location: School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dates: March 26 to 30 2012

Event Summary:
From the course description: "Understanding how to strategically target communication and determining whether or not such strategies are effective at bringing about social or behavioural change requires a particular set of knowledge and skills in the area of research, monitoring and evaluation.

This course will develop the capacity of professionals to:

Story - Jan 12 2012 - 7:32am

A number of resources, manuals, and publications were produced as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Safe Schools Program, which worked from September 2003 to November 2008 to reduce school-related gender-based violence in selected schools in Ghana and Malawi to support the longer-term goal of improving educational and health outcomes for girls and boys.

Materials - May 10 2012 - 2:45am

The aims of this qualitative study, carried out in 2010 by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, were twofold. The first was to explore and document the psychosocial, sexual, and reproductive health (SRH) needs of adolescents (10-19) living with HIV in Zambia. The second aim was to identify gaps between these needs and existing SRH and HIV-related initiatives and services currently available to young people.

Studies - Apr 13 2012 - 7:11am

This guide was produced by Tuberculosis (TB) South Africa in March 2007 to build the capacity of managers to strengthen district and facility level programmes to plan and implement effective TB/HIV social mobilisation strategies. It is intended to be a practical and user-friendly resource to assist those wishing to plan and implement appropriate and effectively managed social mobilisation processes in their communities, focussing on information about how to plan, implement, and evaluate a social mobilisation process to reach communities affected by TB.

Materials - Jan 12 2012 - 3:31am

The Office for Institutional HIV Coordination (OIHC) of Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the African Network for Strategic Communication in Health and Development (AfriComNet), are organising this eight day training short course on Applied Skills in HIV Communication and Counselling.

The training course will cover the following:

• Understanding theory and principles of client education and counselling.
• Counselling and interpersonal skills practice and evaluation.

Event - Jan 10 2012 - 3:47am

This workbook called "More and Better Food, Farming, Climate Change, Health, and the AIDS Epidemic," is the 9th handbook in the Called to Care series. The booklet is a guide to food security in the age of climate change and the AIDS epidemic. It is written from a Christian perspective in simple language and contains line drawings, Biblical references, and participatory exercises for teaching skills through practical activities. Its purpose is to enable pastors, priests, religious sisters and brothers, lay church leaders, and their congregations and communities to:

Materials - Apr 23 2012 - 6:56am

"A lack of political will, inadequate funding, and children's exclusion from research remain barriers to eliminating childhood TB."

Studies - Dec 15 2011 - 1:11am

Produced by Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication, the eleventh series of "Soul City" premiered in October 2011. The television drama series, comprising 13 half-hour episodes, was created as a means of communicating about social and health issues with a specific focus on community action, preventing mother to child transmission (PMTCT), male medical circumcision (MMC), and personal finance. 

Programme Experiences - Apr 5 2012 - 1:29pm

In this issue of The Soul Beat:

Newsletters - Jan 24 2012 - 6:29pm

The Phuza Wize Drink Safe Live Safe campaign, launched by Soul City Health and Development Institute in March 2010, aims to create Safer Social Spaces (S3) and alcohol-free zones in order to reduce levels of violence and new HIV infections in South Africa. A primary target audience is young men aged 15 to 35 who research shows, are the group most affected by interpersonal violence. The community and its members are also a key target audience. The campaign uses mass media, social mobilisation, and advocacy to achieve its objectives.

Programme Experiences - Dec 18 2011 - 11:05pm

Broadcasting from June 2010 through December 2011, Mieraf (New Beginning in Amharic) is a serial radio drama designed to promote the importance of health extension workers and encourage people to use their services, while also raising awareness of health issues, including maternal and child health, use of family planning, malaria prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, and hygiene and sanitation. Produced by the Population Media Center, the drama airs twice weekly and is followed by discussion and interactions with health extension workers.

Programme Experiences - Apr 5 2012 - 1:29pm