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A Story a Day...: The Media as a Preventive Tool in Public Health. A Legacy Assessment of Internews' Health Journalism Program in Kenya and its Impact on the Media, the Public Health Sector and the Audience
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 69 pp.
"Guided by two overarching questions – do people want or need health news, and are they satisfied with the health news available to them – Internews used a mixed methods approach, conducting surveys, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, as well as mining years of project data and rep
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Behaviour Change Communication Interventions for HIV/AIDS
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2012), 6 pp.
"Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) interventions have variable effects on knowledge, attitudes and behaviour with regard to HIV/AIDS. Studies show that peer education is successful at increasing knowledge, increasing condom use, and providing youth with information and condoms; however, effects o
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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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"Behavior Change Communication (BCC) interventions have become an integral part of many HIV prevention programs. Monitoring and evaluation is expected to be included in the design of any BCC interventions from the beginning on. However, the know-how on how to demonstrate results and impacts of such
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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)
Auckland Park: Jacana Media; University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.
"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu
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Media and Global Health: From Information to Action
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 12 pp.
Communication on Immunisation: Building Trust
Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), iv, 41 pp.
"This guide highlights the importance of trust and credibility for public health organisations in order to communicate effectively on immunisation. The document aims at supporting Member States in planning and implementing communication initiatives on vaccination, by presenting an overview of the ma
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Health Communication Message Design: Theory and Practice
Los Angeles: Sage (2012), xvi, 277 pp.
"This one of a kind text illustrates the importance of effective communication in disease prevention and health promotion by building theory-based messages while being responsive to diverse audience needs. This book clearly explains core health communication principles and processes for designing ef
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Report on Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Education for Persons with Disabilities
Quito: UNESCO (2012), 77 pp.
"Significant progress has been made in regional agreements, providing a suitable frame of reference for a social approach to the care model. Although adjustments are required to harmonize domestic norms with international referents, much remains to be done for educational norms in the regions to ado
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Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile
Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.
"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo
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Tuberculosis Advocacy Communication and Social Mobilization
African Health Monitor, issue 15 (2012), pp. 4-6
"This paper looks at the status of tuberculosis advocacy communication and social mobilization (ACSM) activities in selected national tuberculosis control programmes in the WHO African Region. The findings are from an assessment of tuberculosis ACSM activities in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi and So
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Comparing Health Communication
"This review of available scholarship in international health communication reveals a curious disconnect between an abundance of material available in selected nations and regions (e.g., Australia, southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States), on the one hand, and relatively little atten
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HIV/AIDS Reporting Manual
Washington, DC: Kaiser Family Foundation (2012), v, 86 pp.
"The material in this edition covers a broad range of subjects including the unique challenges of reporting on HIV/AIDS, treatment and prevention strategies, key figures in the struggle against HIV/AIDS and global efforts to finance the campaign against HIV/AIDS. The epidemic is not only a battle ag
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Changes in Patterns of Contemporary China’s Radio: Programs - Helping Each Other in Beijing: A Case Study
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 229-238
"Great changes have been taken place in the patterns of China’s radio programs since 1980s. Its role has changed from the government’s “propaganda tool” to meet the multiple needs of the radio listeners; its profit mode somehow has varied from full national funding to making profit independe
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Enhancing Good Practice Documentation with Digital Storytelling: A Reference Manual for Empowering Community-Based Organisations and Communities Around HIV and Gender
Harare: Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS); Women'sNet (2012), 44 pp.
"This reference manual guides the staff of development or other organisations to encourage individuals (either colleagues or community members) to share their personal stories and include their voices as part of a broader good practice documentation process. While SAfAIDS and Women’sNet focus on u
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