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Health and Media In-Country Course 2005: Advocating Healthy Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. Participants' Manual

Angela Dawson

Colin Lloyd (ed.)

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA);Gates Malaria Partnership, 2nd ed. (2005), 124 pp.

"This practical workshop manual forms part of a five day course run by the Health and Media Partnership. The workshop aimed to teach reporters how to report on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in ways that contribute to the prevention and control of these diseases and positively influence the attitudes and ... more

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Building Trust and Responding to Adverse Events Following Immunisation in South Asia: Using Strategic Communication

Kathmandu: UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (2005), vi, 57 pp.

"To develop communication capacity specifically around adverse events following immunisation (AEFI), the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO) organized a joint regional workshop "Strategic Communication: Building Trust and Responding to ... more

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HIV/AIDS in News: Journalists as Catalysts. Toolkit for Trainers

Dilip Jha, Ajeet Prasad, Nandini Datta

New Delhi: UNDP (2005), 95 pp.

"This toolkit is a collection of participatory exercises for use in sensitisation of media persons involved in HIV/AIDS coverage. It can also be integrated with the existing curriculum of schools of journalism and mass communication. The toolkit has been developed keeping in view the needs of journa ... more

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Communication in Public Health Programs: The Leprosy Project in India

Supriya Mukherji, Meera Priyadarshi et al.

Washington, DC: World Bank (2005), x, 30 pp.

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Spot on Malaria: Facilitator's Manual for Workshops on Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
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Cate Cowan, Lonna Shafritz

Washington, DC: USAID, Change Project (2005), 178 pp.

A companion facilitator's manual to the "Spot on Malaria" guide (2005) for conducting an five-day hands-on workshop.

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Tsha Tsha: Key Findings of the Evaluation of Episodes 1-26

Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) (2005), 62 pp.

"Tsha Tsha is an entertainment-education television drama series focusing on young people and dealing with love, sexuality and relationships in a world affected by HIV/AIDS. Audience research utilised by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) showed that episodes 1-13 achieved an audience ... more

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HIV/AIDS in News: Journalists as Catalysts

UNDP (2005), vii, 162 pp.

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Behavior Change Perspectives and Communication Guidelines on Six Child Survival Interventions

Kim S. Martin (ed.)

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2005), xi, 178 pp.

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Lights of Hope: A National Communication Strategy for Fighting Tuberculosis in Kenya

Nairobi: USAID;Ministry of Health;Path (2005), 43 pp.

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Time for Action on TB Communication: A Briefing for Policy-Makers, Programmers and Health Communicators on Contemporary Communication Opportunities and Challenges

London: Panos Institute (2005), iv, 18 pp.

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Getting the Message Across: The Mass Media and the Response to AIDS

Geneva: Joint United Nation Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) (2005), 56 pp.

"The three case studies in this report are examples of what can be achieved when the media are used creatively towards positive outcomes. They offer lessons from experience that will be of value to people everywhere who are interested in harnessing the power of the mass media to help in the response ... more

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Outbreak Communication: Best Practices for Communicating with the Public During an Outbreak. Report of the Expert Consultation on Outbreak Communications Held in Singapore, 21-23 September 2004

World Health Organization (WHO) (2005), v, 59 pp.

"The report has two parts. The first, devoted to outbreak experience, describes the special case of outbreaks and the many difficult challenges they present for communicators. It also summarizes presentations during the consultation that looked at recent outbreaks in terms of what they have to say a ... more

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Malaria and the Media: Advocating Healthy Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Report of a Baseline Study Undertaken in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Gambia from the 21st January – 16 February 2005

Angela Dawson

Gates Malaria Partnership, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2005), 131 pp.

"The work in this report and that found in the International Woman’s Media Foundation / Africa Woman’s Media Centre report, Deadline for Health (2004), provide us with the only insight into malaria reporting in African contexts. Both are baseline studies made prior to journalists training interv ... more

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Suicide in the Media: A Quantitative Review of Studies Based on Nonfictional Stories

Steven Stack

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, volume 35, issue 2 (2005), pp. 121-133

"Research on the effect of suicide stories in the media on suicide in the real world has been marked by much debate and inconsistent findings. Recent narrative reviews have suggested that research based on nonfictional models is more apt to uncover imitative effects than research based on fictional ... more

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Communicating HIV and AIDS, What Works? A Report on the Impact Evaluation of Soul City's Fourth Series

Susan Goldstein, Shereen Usdin, Esca Scheepers, Garth Japhet

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 ... more

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Libraries for the Blind in the Information Age: Guidelines for Development

Rosemary Kavanagh, Beatrice Christensen Sköld (eds.)

The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (2005), 87 pp.

"Developing an efficient library service for print-disabled people is extremely important, because there are significantly fewer books available commercially in accessible formats compared to what is published in print for the general public. The need to build collections in alternative formats and ... more

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Effective Media Communication During Public Health Emergencies: A WHO Handbook

Randall N. Hyer, Vincent T. Covello

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2005), 124 pp.

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Counting on Communication: The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project

Cecilia Cabañero-Verzosa

Washington, DC: World Bank (2005), vii, 41 pp.

"The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Project was one of DevComm’s first projects to demonstrate the value-added of strategic communication. The strategic communication component developed for this project included the use of formative research about values and attitudes with respe ... more

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Entre jóvenes: Comunicación y VIH. Herramientas periodísticas para crear campañas comunitarias de prevención de VIH/SIDA

Silvia Bacher, Mónica Beltrán

Buenos Aires; Quito: Las Otras Voces;UNESCO (2005), 241 pp.

"Entre jóvenes. Comunicación y VIH desarrolla estrategias para jóvenes preocupados por dos derechos que les son propios: el derecho a la comunicación y el derecho a la salud. Entre jóvenes. Comunicación y VIH es el resultado del desafío de abrir espacios y construir redes que fortalezcan la p ... more

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Breaking the Silence: Memory Books and Succession Planning. The Experience of NACWOLA and Save the Children UK in Uganda

Sophie Witter

London: Save the Children;National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA) (2004), 36 pp.

Spot on Malaria: Facilitator's Manual for Workshops on Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots Key Guidance

Spot on Malaria: Facilitator's Manual for Workshops on Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
Key Guidance