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The Impacts of an Entertainment-Education Radio Serial Drama in Botswana on Outcomes Related to HIV Prevention Goals in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

L. Meghan Mahoney, Benjamin R. Bates

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 3 (2013), pp. 353-367

"This study examines the effectiveness of an entertainment education (EE) programme, Makgabaneng, in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. If successful, this communication intervention should result in greater self-report of attitudes, actions and knowledge related to risk reduction goals am ... more

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Communication for Social Mobilization: An Evaluative Study of the National Immunization Campaign in Nigeria

Grade O. Imoh

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IOSR-JHSS), volume 13, issue 6 (2013), pp. 78-88

"This study critically evaluates the communication strategies used in the campaign for social mobilization for the National Programme on Immunization in Nigeria. Its objective is to determine the communication factors that contributed to the participation of individuals and groups in the programme a ... more

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A Literature Review on Effective Risk Communication for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases in Europe

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2013), 20 pp.

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Using Narrative Communication in a Mass-Produced Youth Magazine as an HIV Prevention Intervention

Esther Etkin

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 3-17

"With young people at the epicentre of the HIV epidemic, we need to build upon and find ways of sustaining interventions that place youth at the centre of prevention. This article argues that narrative communication is one such strategy, provided it is part of a comprehensive HIV prevention plan. Na ... more

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Traffic Crashes: Reporting on Road Safety as a Global Health Crisis

Washington, DC: Internews (2013), 8 pp.

"Road traffic is often covered in the media as an event – not as an enormous drain on a country’s health resources or a leading killer of its citizens. By framing traffic safety as a health story, journalists have the opportunity to impact the way these stories are told, and potentially help shi ... more

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Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide
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Charles Abraham, Marieke Kools (eds.)

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 ... more

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Behaviour Change Communication Targeting Four Health Behaviours in Developing Countries: A Review of Change Techniques

Ciara Briscoe, Frances Aboud

Social Science & Medicine, volume 75 (2012), pp. 612-621

"Behaviour change communication is vital for increasing the enactment of particular behaviours known to promote health and growth. The techniques used to change behaviour are important for determining how successful the intervention is. In order to integrate findings from different interventions, we ... more

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 ... more

La obesidad infantil y la publicidad de alimentos no saludables en el Perú

Alexander Chiu Werner

Lima: Consejo Consultivo de Radio y Televisión (CONCORTV) (2012), 9 pp.

Behaviour Change Communication Interventions for HIV/AIDS

Stefan Weinmann, Ruta Yemane

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 ... more

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 ... more

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 ... more

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Guía de estilo: Cómo abordar la salud mental en los medios de comunicación

Federación de Euskadi de Asociaciones de Familiares y Personas con Enfermedad Mental (FEDEAFES) (2012), 15 pp.

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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 ... more

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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

Callie Long

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 ... more

Report on Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Education for Persons with Disabilities

Pilar Samaniego, Sanna-Mari Laitamo, Estela Valerio, Cristina Francisco

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 ... more

Tuberculosis Advocacy Communication and Social Mobilization

Sarbani Sengupta, Wilfred Nkhoma et al.

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 ... more

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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)

Emma Durden, Eliza Govender (eds.)

Auckland Park: Jacana Media; Media and Society (CCMS) Centre for Communication University of KwaZulu-Natal (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 ... more

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