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"This tool is used to assess the SBCC knowledge and competence of individuals and how successful a specific training has been for them. Individuals about to take an SBCC training fill in the pre-assessment provided in this document, then fill in the post-assessment right after completing the trainin
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Effects of the Gama Cuulu Radio Serial Drama on HIV-Related Behavior Change in Zambia
Journal of Health Communication, volume 17, issue 8 (2012), pp. 929-945
"The Gama Cuulu radio serial drama is written and produced in Zambia's Southern Province. It promotes behavior change and service use to prevent HIV transmission. The authors evaluated the effects of Gama Cuulu on intermediate outcomes (e.g., perceived norms), as well as number of sexual partners, c
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Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide
Key Guides
London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2012), xv, 175 pp.
"[This] is a practical guide to producing effective written materials. The book presents easy-to-understand, evidence-based guidance on providing information, presenting persuasive messages and promoting behaviour change. Topics include: message framing; use of fear appeals; tailoring messages; usin
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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
Deep Insights
New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2011), ix, 127 pp.
This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides
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Public Awareness and Public Education for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Guide
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2011), 74 pp.
"This guide sets out approaches and tools for public awareness and public education in disaster risk reduction already widely in use by National Societies. It pulls together a range of research on risk communications and public education for behaviour change, and practitioners’ own discoveries in
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Acting on HIV: Using Drama to Create Possibilities for Change
Rotterdam; Boston; Taipei: Sense Publishers (2011), xii, 153 pp.
"Acting on HIV offers a sustained and relatively systematic inquiry into drama as an approach to discussion of HIV/AIDS and related attitudes and behaviors. A distinctive feature of the research that is presented in Acting on HIV is the emphasis on the potential for and value of using drama to promo
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Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-By-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good
Key Guides
London et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2011), xiv, 309 pp.
"The Second Edition incorporates developments in marketing practice over the last 10 years and focuses on how to apply the design approach to campaigns to effect behavior change. All organizations can do social marketing, Weinreich insists, if they follow the steps and start to think from a social m
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A 10-Year Systematic Review of HIV/AIDS Mass Communication Campaigns: Have We Made Progress?
Deep Insights
Journal of Health Communication, volume 14 (2009), pp. 15-42
"The purpose of the current study was to conduct a 10-year systematic review of HIV/AIDS mass communication campaigns focused on sexual behavior, HIV testing, or both (1998-2007) and to compare the results with the last comprehensive review of such campaigns, conducted by Myhre and Flora (2000). A c
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TV Soap Operas in HIV Education: Reaching Out with Popular Entertainment
Deep Insights
Eschborn: German HIV Peer Review Group (PRG); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2009), 38 pp.
"This publication looks closely at cases where Germany has supported the production and broadcast of television soap operas as key components of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) in three very different countries with three very different HIV epidemics: In Kyrgyzstan, the epidemic is largely conce
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HIV/AIDS Behaviour Change Communication: A Toolkit for the Workplace
Geneva: International Labour Organization (ILO) (2008), 630 pp.
"The Toolkit provides a step-by-step approach, emphasizing prevention through education, gender awareness and practical support for behaviour change. Its intended users are government authorities, employers’ and workers’ and their organizations, businesses, ILO/AIDS National Project Coordinators
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The Impact of Media Interventions: Factors and Evidence
Reading: Gamos (2007), 27 pp.
"In this paper we will be looking at the evidence of impact from interventions in the so-called ‘traditional’ media – TV, radio and, to a much lesser extent, print – and factors contributing to that impact. By ‘media interventions’ we mean using mass-media in support of development objec
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Behaviour Change Communication in Emergencies: A Toolkit
Kathmandu: UNICEF (2006), 238 pp.
"This toolkit is a resource for everyone working in emergency situations caused by natural disasters. It is designed to help programme managers from UNICEF, UN agencies, NGO partners and government personnel to prepare, plan, implement and monitor behaviour change communication initiatives supportin
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Planning BCC Interventions: A Practical Handbook
Bangkok: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2006), 50 pp.
Communicating HIV and AIDS, What Works? A Report on the Impact Evaluation of Soul City's Fourth Series
Journal of Health Communication, volume 10, issue 5 (2005), pp. 465-483
"This article describes the evaluation of the HIV/AIDS communication aspect of the multi media Soul City health promotion intervention in South Africa. The intervention consists of a television and radio drama and print material. The evaluation was multifaceted with a before and after national surve
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Strategic Communication for Behaviour and Social Change in South Asia
Kathmandu: UNICEF (2005), xvi, 70 pp.
BCC Network for HIV/AIDS: First Regional Meeting for East, Central and Southern Africa. Renewed Emphasis on Behaviour Change Communication for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care
Kampala: Family Health International (FHI) (2004), 101 pp.
"The concept of a Regional BCC Network for HIV/AIDS for East, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) grew out of a common interest and understanding among a number of BCC practitioners dealing with HIV/AIDS in the region that something needed to be done to help address common challenges and needs, impro
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HIV/AIDS: The Creative Challenge. Literature Review: Engaging with Culture in HIV/AIDS Communications
Creative Exchange (2004), 26 pp.
"This literature review explores current thinking and analysis of the role of culture in development communications addressing HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care. It takes as its starting point the relationship between culture and the global strategic response to HIV/AIDS, tracing the impli
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