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Recommended Guidelines on Language and Terminology: Persons with Disabilities. A Manual for News Professionals

Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB);Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada (RTNDA) (2006), 12 pp.

"This manual presents a series of recommended guidelines for broadcasters for the use of language and terminology when referencing persons with disabilities in broadcast news. It has been developed on the basis of previous research conducted on behalf of Canada’s private broadcasters by the Canadi ... more

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Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization to Fight TB: A 10-Year Framework for Action

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO);ACSM Subgroup at country level (2006), 93 pp.

"This workplan focuses on those areas where advocacy, communication and social mobilization (ACSM) has most to offer and where ACSM strategies can be most effectively concentrated to help address four key challenges to TB control at country level: improving case detection and treatment adherence; co ... more

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Act, Learn and Teach: Theatre, HIV and AIDS Toolkit for Youth in Africa

Laura Myers, Simona Costanzo Sow, Helena Drobná, Manilee Bagheritari, Prosper Kompaoré

Paris: UNESCO;Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS) (2006), 67 pp.

"This toolkit and associated material, including the CD-ROM provided, introduce you to Forum Theatre as a tool for HIV and AIDS education. The toolkit has been written with special consideration for youth groups and amateur theatre groups in English-speaking Africa who wish to address HIV- and AIDS- ... more

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Health Communication

Richard K. Thomas

Boston, MA: Springer (2006), vii, 212 pp.

"[This publication] reviews basic theory and concepts underlying the health communication field; offers real-world strategies for designing, implementing, and evaluating programs; provides up-to-date coverage of print, broadcast, digital, and interactive health media. Case examples illustrate what w ... more

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IFJ Research Findings on Reporting HIV/AIDS in Six Countries in Africa and Asia

Chansok Lay, Arul Selvan, Tunde Aremu et al.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 81 pp.

"Media monitoring found a low incidence of HIV/AIDS stories across most media in the six countries. Researchers variously described the incidence of HIV stories during the media monitoring as “small” (Cambodia and the Philippines), “miniscule” (South Africa), and “infrequent” (India). In ... more

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Ausdrucksstark: Modelle zur aktiven Medienarbeit mit Heranwachsenden mit Behinderung

Elke Michaelis, Oliver Lieb (eds.)

München: kopaed (2006), 112 pp.

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Voice and Visibility: Frontline Perspectives on How the Global News Media Reports on HIV/AIDS

Sara Friedman, Jackie Davies

Ron MacInnis (ed.)

Washington, DC: Internews Network (2006), 15 pp.

"HIV/AIDS program managers and PLHIV are the most aware of and most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and have a unique sensitivity to how HIV/AIDS is depicted in the media. The purposes of the surveys were to: 1. Document the perceptions of PLHIV and HIV/AIDS program managers on news media coverag ... more

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Breaking Barriers: Effective Communication for Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support by 2010

Robert Vincent

Lusaka: Panos Global AIDS Programme (2006), 25 pp.

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Zip my Brain Harts

Angela Buckland

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2006), xi, 91 pp.

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Evidence-Based Health Communication

Brian Brown, Paul Crawford, Ronald Carter

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2006), 205 pp.

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Kommunikation über HIV/AIDS: Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Prävention im subsaharischen Afrika

Martina Drescher, Sabine Klaeger (eds.)

Münster: Lit (2006), 336 pp.

"Die Beiträge dieses Bandes thematisieren Fragen der HIV/Aids-Prävention in Afrika - dem nach wie vor am stärksten von der Pandemie betroffenen Kontinent. Im Zentrum jeglicher Präventionsarbeit steht die Wissensvermittlung mit dem Ziel, Menschen durch Aufklärung und entsprechende Informationen ... more

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HIV/AIDS Outreach Programme in Southern Africa: Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (STEPS) and International Video Fair (IVF) Programmes

Neddy Matshalanga, Edem Djokotoe

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2006), 56 pp.

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Spot on Malaria: A Guide to Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
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Cate Cowan, Lonna Shafritz

Washington, DC: USAID, Change Project (2005), 157 pp.

"The Spot on Malaria guide focuses on malaria prevention and treatment messages and ways to tailor them to reach communities often missed by national malaria programmes. The guide shows how to adapt or localise materials from national malaria programmes and how to create original radio spots or adve ... more

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AIDS Communication

Andrew Skuse

London: Department for International Development (DFID), Information and Communication for Development (ICD) (2005), 36 pp.

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Soap Operas for Social Change to Prevent HIV/AIDS: A Training Guide for Journalists and Media Personnel
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Kriss Barker, Miguel Sabido (eds.)

Shelburne, Vt.: Population Media Center (PMC);United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2005), 75 pp.

"This guide seeks to familiarise journalists and media personnel with the Sabido methodology for social change using entertainment-education format serial dramas broadcast over mass media channels (such as radio and television). The main area of focus is for HIV and AIDS prevention, especially among ... more

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Reporting AIDS: An Analysis of Media Environments in Southern Africa

London: Panos (2005), 59 pp.

"This report shares the findings of five studies of media coverage of HIV/AIDS, carried out in Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe by the Panos London AIDS Programme, with the support of Johns Hopkins University. The studies aimed to explore some of the issues and tensions involved ... more

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Assessment of Phase II of Project "Radio SIDA"

Leo Metcalf

Andrew Lees Trust;National Committee to Fight AIDS (CNLS) (2005), 54 pp.

"The study revealed important coverage by Project ‘Radio SIDA’ of the targeted populations. 89% of the population that was studied declared having heard about AIDS on the radio. Radio is clearly the most important source of information for both urban and rural populations. Given that 68% of the ... more

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Feuilletons pour le changement social en vue de prévenir le VIH/SIDA: Un guide de formation sur la méthodologie de Sabido à l'intention des journalistes et des professionels des médias

Kriss Barker, Miguel Sabido

Shelburne, Vt.: Population Media Center (2005), 74 pp.

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Why Invest in Communication for Immunization? Evidence and Lessons Learned

Silvio Waisbord, Larson Heidi J.

Baltimore: Health Communication Partnership;Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs;UNICEF (2005), iv, 20 pp.

"This report makes a case for revitalizing investments in communication for immunization. It considers communication in a broad sense, including advocacy, social and community mobilization, and information, education, and communication (IEC) activities. It identifies communication challenges that af ... more

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Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

Charles A. Riley

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England (2005), xviii, 258 pp.

"In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and prof ... itable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage. Yet depictions of disability have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. Focusing almost exclusively on the medical aspect of injury or illness, the disability profile in fact and fiction leads inevitably to an inspiring moment of “overcoming.” According to Riley, this cliché plays well with a general audience, but such narratives, driven by prejudice and pity, highlight the importance of “fixing” the disability and rendering the “sufferer” as normal as possible. These stories are deeply offensive to persons with disabilities. Equally important, misguided coverage has adverse effects on crucial aspects of public policy, such as employment, social services, and health care. Powerful and influential, the media is complicit in this distortion of disability issues that has proven to be a factor in the economic and social repression of one in five Americans. Newspapers and magazines continue to consign disability stories to the “back of the book” health or human-interest sections, using offensive language that has long been proscribed by activists. Filmmakers compound the problem by featuring angry misfits or poignant heroes of melodramas that pair love and redemption. Publishers churn out self-help titles and memoirs that milk the disability theme for pathos. As Riley points out, all branches of the media are guilty of the same crude distillation of the story to serve their own, usually fiscal, ends. Riley’s lively inside investigation illuminates the extent of the problem while pinpointing how writers, editors, directors, producers, filmmakers, advertisers and the executives who give their marching orders go wrong, or occasionally get it right. Through a close analysis of the technical means of representation, in conjunction with the commentary of leading voices in the disability community, Riley guides future coverage to a more fair and accurate way of putting the disability story on screen or paper. He argues that with the “discovery” by Madison Avenue that the disabled community is a major consumer niche, the economic rationale for more sophisticated coverage is at hand. It is time, says Riley, to cut through the accumulated stereotypes and find an adequate vocabulary that will finally represent the disability community in all its vibrant and fascinating diversity." (Publisher description) more

Spot on Malaria: A Guide to Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots Key Guidance

Soap Operas for Social Change to Prevent HIV/AIDS: A Training Guide for Journalists and Media Personnel Key Guidance

Spot on Malaria: A Guide to Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
Key Guidance

Soap Operas for Social Change to Prevent HIV/AIDS: A Training Guide for Journalists and Media Personnel
Key Guidance