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Radio as a Tool for Health Education: What Makes for an Effective HIV/AIDS Radio Campaign in Sub-Saharan Africa? (Intersect: The Stanford Journal of Science, Technology, and Society, Vol 9 No 3, 2016)

September 9, 2018

Abstract: From the bustling cities of Zambia to the most rural parts of Lesotho, HIV/AIDS is a raging epidemic that affects over 15% of the adult population in many regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. Public health interventions often take the form of media campaigns, which utilize television, radio, and print advertisements to spread awareness and inform the population of risk factors, prevention methods, and treatment options. This paper will focus on HIV/AIDS radio programs in Malawi, Zambia, and other countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. It will analyze these programs’ air times, audience, presentation style, and content, and identify how these factors influenced behavioral changes in the audiences. Additionally, this paper proposes promising techniques to ensure the success of future campaigns based on previous findings. Given these reviews of broadcasts of the past and their strengths and weaknesses, radio stations can better understand the reasons behind the programs’ respective impacts on the target populations. Further, this methodology can be applied when considering new radio programs for health education for HIV/AIDS and beyond.

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Filed Under: *MASS MEDIA ROUTES, Awareness Raising, Behaviour Change Communication, Edutainment, HIV/AIDS and SRH, Malawi, Research Papers, Zambia Tagged With: Health Education, Sub-Saharan Africa

UNAIDS Project: ICTs for HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming

September 9, 2018

The C4D Network, through its consultancy channel, is managing a UNAIDS project focusing on the use of ICTs for HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programming: with a special focus on developing a repository and learning community that enables universal access to content, research results and technology solutions of the many innovative and successful ICT projects that exist to engage young people on matters related to their sexuality and provide information about available HIV and SRH services for young people in sub-Saharan Africa.

Case Study Repository: As part of the project the C4D Network is hosting a universal-access library of case studies including full technical details on a range of ICT relevant software and content. Click here to visit the repository.

Context:  On 27th-29th November 2015, the C4D Network’s East Africa Hub participated in a meeting on ‘Exploring the Role of New Information and Communications Technology in HIV Programmes with Youth and Adolescents in Africa,’ which took place in Harare, Zimbabwe. The meeting was a consultation with African countries, including representatives of innovative projects using ICT targeting adolescents and young people, the private sector, communications experts, national AIDS programmes, young people organizations and UN representatives, and intended to establish recommendations for developing this field of activity. This was part of a C4D Network project in which eleven in-depth case studies on the topic were gathered, published online, and showcased at events in Harare and London. This concept note proposes how such knowledge sharing can continue.

One of the key ‘next steps’ arising from the Harare meeting discussions was the need for an accessible repository of materials for such interventions, as captured in the Executive Summary of the meeting report:

‘Programmes would benefit greatly from efficient knowledge management through a repository that enables universal access to content, research results and technology solutions of the many innovative and successful projects that exist. The Communication for Development (C4D) Network is ideally placed to facilitate the establishment of such a repository.’

(Information and Communications Technologies: 2015 Meeting Report’, UNAIDS/UNICEF/UNFPA, p.4)

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Children, HIV/AIDS and SRH, HIV/AIDS Highlights, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), NETWORK, Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Sub-Saharan Africa

Safe Sisters: A common sense guide to digital safety for women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (Internews/Defend Defenders 2018)

May 20, 2018

This booklet was made possible by the collective effort of Internews, Defend Defenders, and the 2017-2018 Safe Sister fellowship program. The aim of the booklet is to make digital security less complicated and more relevant to real users and to encourage all women and girls to take online safety into their own hands.

The authors hope this booklet will help readers see that the most effective ways to protect themselves online are common sense strategies already used offline every day.

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Filed Under: Gender, ICT4D (Information Communication Technologies for Development), Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Sub-Saharan Africa

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