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Guide for Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Products and Services for Men

The Guide for Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health Products and Services for Men focuses on meaningfully engaging men and creating an enabling environment to increase men’s use of SRH products and services. Drawing on lessons learned from the promotion of male condoms, vasectomy, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC), HIV testing services (HTS) and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment, the guide provides guidance, resources and examples of approaches that have increased men’s use of SRH products and services in a variety of settings.

In the guide, you will learn about programs that have successfully addressed harmful social and gender norms, which have traditionally excluded men from fully participating in their SRH care. You will also learn how programs have addressed beliefs and misinformation, and built social support for men’s use of SRH products and services using a variety of social and behavior change (SBC) approaches.

The guide highlights key considerations for developing SBC strategies and activities for increasing men’s SRH, including:

• Developing an SBC strategy;

• Developing a deeper understanding of audiences;

• Segmenting audiences for better messaging;

• Tailoring messages to the life stages of men;

• Engaging women as partners and mothers;

• Promoting couples communication;

• Using gender transformative programming;

• Utilizing peer educators and mentors;

• Engaging community and religious leaders;

• Using technology: mobile health (mHealth), hotlines and social media;

• Providing high-quality comprehensive counseling;

• Branding SRH products and services for men;

• Using client testimonials and engage male champions; and

• Considering the timings and design of communication campaigns.

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    Health Promotion Online Course

    This is a free online course developed for the full range of those working in the health communication field, including practicing health communication specialists, those just entering or new to the field, or those who are more experienced. The course provides an introduction to Health Promotion (HP) concepts, theories and resources; identifies what is new and unique to health promotion; orients learners to health communication resources; and serves as a basic learning module.

    It was created by the Ontario, Canada Health Promotion Resource System (OHPRS) as a collaborative effort between 22 member organizations with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. The OHPRS’ role is to support health promoters in Ontario, but this resource can be useful for anyone working in health communication. The course covers foundations of health communication, health communication in action, and developing your own health communication activities.

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      Hormonal Contraceptive Eligibility for Women at High Risk of HIV- FAQs

      This is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about how the World Health Organization developed its guidelines for hormonal contraception and women at high risk for HIV, as well as basic facts about this issue. Some of the questions are:

      1. Do hormonal contraceptives protect against HIV infection?
      2. Does using hormonal contraceptives increase the risk of contracting HIV?
      3. What is dual protection?
      4. What can be done to increase the ability of women and girls to practice dual protection?
      5. Can women living with HIV use hormonal contraceptives?
      6. Who should decide on what option is best for women and girls?
      7. Are the current options available for HIV prevention and contraception enough?

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        Hormonal Contraceptive Eligibility for Women at High Risk of HIV: Guidance Statement

        The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a technical consultation during 1–2 December 2016 to review new evidence on the risk of HIV acquisition with the use of hormonal contraception. The issue was recognized as a critical one, particularly for sub-Saharan Africa, where women have a high lifetime risk of acquiring HIV, hormonal contraceptives constitute a significant component of the contraceptive method mix and unintended pregnancy is a common threat to the well-being and lives of women and girls.

        The consultation developed recommendations, including:

        • Women and couples at high risk of HIV infection continue to be eligible to use all forms of hormonal contraception. Informed decision-making is a key organizing principle and standard in a human rights-based approach to contraceptive information and services (5). A shared decision-making approach to contraceptive use should be taken with all individuals, but special attention should be paid to using this approach with vulnerable populations, such as women at high risk of acquiring HIV.
        • Women should not be denied the use of progestogen-only injectables because of concerns about the possible increased risk. Women considering progestogen-only injectables should, however, be advised about this, about the uncertainty over a causal relationship, and about how to minimize their risk of acquiring HIV.

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          How-To Guide for a Social Network Diffusion Intervention to Overcome Social Barriers to Family Planning

          The Tékponon Jikuagou in Benin developed and tested a scalable package of social network activities to engage men and women in discussion and reflection about unmet need for family planning. The package worked with and through influential and connected network actors who may be more effective in diffusing new ideas and mobilizing public dialogue than formal leaders or health workers alone.

          Based on the successful pilot that demonstrated the effectiveness of the approach, this How-To Guide provides detailed instructions for organizations that wish to offer the package. The social network intervention can be used as a stand-alone initiative or as part of ongoing health and development programs.

          There are sections on:

          • Engage Communities in Social Network Mapping
          • Catalyze Reflection in Influential Groups
          • Encourage Influential Persons to Act
          • Create an Enabling Environment with Radio
          • Link Family Planning Providers with Influential Groups
          • Social Network Diffusion Materials

          The guide is available in English and French.

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            The HTSP Implementation Kit

            The HTSP I-Kit is designed to help program managers address the risks of pregnancies among women aged 35 and older (of advanced maternal age, or AMA) and women having five or more births (high-parity, or HP) in their family planning or maternal and child health programs. It is intended to be used by international or local non-governmental organization (NGOs), government divisions or community group program managers who want to use communication approaches to help reduce AMA and HP pregnancies in their community.

            The Kit can be used online or can be downloaded.

            The I-Kit is divided into two parts:

            1. Sections to help review the local data, apply SBCC approaches to design a strategy, integrate AMA and HP into FP and MCH programs, develop an action plan, adapt SBCC communication materials, and prepare a monitoring and evaluation plan.
            2. Adaptable SBCC communication materials, including: counseling guides for providers/CHWs; a provider poster; client brochures; guides for working with community-based groups, researchers and journalists; and infographics.

            The French version of the kit is here.

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              HTSP Project Briefs: Niger, Togo

              This is a series of briefs on HTSP activities in Niger and Togo – the briefs are attached in both English and French. These briefs describe findings from research performed to better understand the knowledge, attitudes, practices and socio-cultural factors in Togo and Niger that lead women to continue having children later in life and after they have already had many births.

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                Ideas and Action: Addressing the Social Factors that Influence Sexual and Reproductive Health

                This manual describes the experience of CARE staff and partners in using an approach called Social Analysis and Action (SAA) to identify and address the social, economic, and cultural factors that influence reproductive health. SAA is an approach for working with communities through regularly recurring dialogue to address how their social conditions perpetuate their health challenges. In this way, SAA seeks to enable communities to identify linkages between social factors and health and then determine how to address them. As a first step in this process, SAA encourages CARE staff to deeply question their own biases and behaviours that might contribute to or reduce social stigma, discrimination, and social conditions. In this way, SAA suggests that for developmental change to take place, change must sometimes begin with the development worker.

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                  Malaria Social and Behavior Change Communication Indicator Reference Guide: Second Edition

                  This guide aims to support Ministries of Health, donor agencies and implementing partners involved in malaria prevention and control to evaluate the effectiveness of malaria BCC interventions and to measure levels of behavior change for malaria prevention and case management at the country level. The indicators are also useful for monitoring and designing malaria BCC interventions. These indicators were developed and chosen by a working group composed of President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) partners with extensive experience in monitoring and evaluating BCC activities, including malaria BCC activities.

                  The guide is intended for use by communication and monitoring and evaluation officers at National Malaria Control Programs, as well as by representatives of donor agencies that fund malaria prevention and control, and by communication/BCC officers within implementing partner agencies. This document outlines the recommended indicators required for tracking (Core Indicators), as well as optional indicators (Supplemental and Experimental).

                  The document attached has both English and French versions.

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                    Manual on Social Norms and Change

                    This manual is meant for training program managers to promote the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). It has been designed under a joint program of the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Children’s Fund. The program applies an innovative approach to FGM/C abandonment, using a social norms perspective to guide the selection of an appropriate mix of strategies and activities most conducive to self-sustained social change.

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