Pocket Booklet: Champions, Change Agents, and Positive Male Role Models

This booklet serves as a one-stop resource for all key facts and messages on all the topics covered in the Facilitator’s Guide for Community Dialogue.

HIV Champions, Change Agents, and Positive MRMs are not expected to memorize all information related to HIV prevention, testing, or treatment. Instead, they are encouraged to take this booklet with them when they do their community meetings and provide advocacy as a reference to pass standard but high-level messages. Some illustrations and pictures are included for simplicity. All cultural communications cadres are encouraged to use this Pocket Booklet during meetings, advocacy activities, and any HIV-related conversations in the community.

Source: USAID

Date of Publication: April 18, 2019

1,000 Golden Days

Alive & Thrive is an initiative in Vietnam aimed at improving infant and young child feeding by increasing rates of exclusive breastfeeding and improving complementary feeding practices. This leaflet emphasizes the importance of those days to a child’s physical and cognitive development.

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Alive & Thrive

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

12 Golden Rules to Avoid Fake Medicines Online

This brochure answers the following questions:

  • Is it legal to buy medicines online in my country?
  • Is there a label that authenticates legitimate online pharmacies?
  • When buying medicines on the internet, can I speak with a pharmacist?

Source: Source

Fight the Fakes

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Adolescents’ HIV Prevention and Treatment Literacy Toolkit for Eastern and Southern Africa

This is a set of materials for working with adolescents.

The purposes of the toolkit are:

  • Create open advocacy spaces for adolescent HIV prevention and treatment issues
  • Strengthen the capacity of the key custodians of adolescent education systems and structures at community level (teachers and school staff, counsellors, service providers) to further engage adolescents and their circles of care
  • Scale-up availability of and access to information on adolescent HIV prevention and treatment at the local level

The tookit consists of:

  • Facilitator’s guide
  • Reference materials
  • Workbook for ages 10-12
  • Workbook for ages 13-15
  • Workbook for ages 16-19
  • Quiz cards
  • Personal responsiblity list
  • Teacher’s guide

Source: SafAIDS

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Age Specific Complementary Food Leaflet

Suaahara was a five year (2011-2016) project funded by USAID aimed to improve the nutritional status of women and children in 41 districts of Nepal. The project focused on improving health and nutrition behaviors at the household level through promotion of Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions (EN/HA), particularly Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN), and addressing other determinants of under-nutrition, such as availability of and access to food, hygiene, quality of health care, child spacing and socio-cultural factors including gender and marginalization.

Suaahara was implemented by a consortium of partner organizations led by Save the Children.

The SBCC strategy established an internal quality materials review and production system to ensure that all partners in the consortium had mutually reinforcing, quality materials developed, pretested, produced and disseminated to the end user.

In 2014, Suaahara developed this leaflets on age specific complementary food as support material of Bhanchhin Aama Campaign and disseminated in all community, household, food fairs, exhibitions in Suaahara implementing districts through local NGO partners.

Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/ Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Aha ye de – Always Sleep Under a Treated Net

In June 2011 BCS and ProMPT, in partnership with the National Malaria Control Programme and the Ghana Health Service, launched the new “Aha ye de” malaria campaign. “Aha ye de” means “It’s Good Here” in Twi, one of Ghana’s national languages. The campaign is designed to reposition the use of treated nets as a lifestyle decision, while at the same time preventing malaria, linking to the BCS’s overarching GoodLife campaign.

The campaign seeks to increase risk perception by emphasizing the severity and threats of malaria. At the same time, the campaign empowers individuals to use malaria prevention and appropriate treatment. This leaflet illustrates proper ways to hang and care for a treated net, and provides information as to how nets work and the benefits of using them.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Be Beautiful

A brochure aimed at Nigerian women encouraging family planning and spelling out their characteristics and responsibilities using the first letters of the word “beautiful.”

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Be Successful

The Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative is designed to increase contraceptives use in selected urban sites in Nigeria (FCT, Kaduna, Ilorin, Ibadan, Zaria and Benin) with a focus on the urban poor. . This pamphlet is part of the “Know. Talk. Go” project of NURHI. The pamphlet lists the elements of being a successful father by using the letters in the word “Successful.”

In 2012 a midterm evaluation (Measurement, Learning & Evaluation of the Urban Health Initiative: Nigeria 2012 Midterm Survey) showed considerable improvements in Family Planning knowledge and behavior across the four Nigerian cities. The evaluation showed increases in the knowledge of family planning methods from baseline to midterm across all cities for both men and women. More than 98 percent of men and women have correct knowledge (spontaneous or probed) of at least one family planning method at midterm. The largest increases were observed in Kaduna — a 23 percentage-point increase for women and a 19 percentage-point increase for men.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Bhanchhin Aama Radio Program Brochure

Suaahara was a five year (2011-2016) project funded by USAID aimed to improve the nutritional status of women and children in 41 districts of Nepal. The project focused on improving health and nutrition behaviors at the household level through promotion of Essential Nutrition and Hygiene Actions (EN/HA), particularly Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN), and addressing other determinants of under-nutrition, such as availability of and access to food, hygiene, quality of health care, child spacing and socio-cultural factors including gender and marginalization.

Suaahara was implemented by a consortium of partner organizations led by Save the Children. Suaahara developed and implemented the integrated Bhanchhin Aama (“Mother knows best”) cohesive platform which linked varied messages and reinforced recommended actions through a wide array of channels including mass media (radio programs, radio spots and billboards), print, and social mobilization.

To create awareness about the “Bhanchhin Aama Radio Program” within the audiences of the general public, stakeholders, implementing partners, donors and the government Suaahara/SBCC team developed this brochure.

Bhanchhin Aama Phase-I, Phase-II and Phase-III radio programs were launched in November 30, 2013, July 12, 2014 and August 1, 2015 respectively. These radio programs and support materials and activities contributed to the overall goals of the National Maternal Newborn Child Health Communication Strategy 2011-2016, developed under the leadership of the National Health Education Information and Communication Center (NHEICC). The programs were research- and theory- based and developed using a participatory, interactive approach. A central focus was be to strengthen self-efficacy to make positive nutrition, agriculture and hygiene choices.

Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/ Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Boys and Growing Up

A brochure for boys about puberty, answering frequently asked questions. Information covers: what is puberty, what’s happening to my body, the penis, sperm, wet dreams, zits, spots, and pimples, and how to survive puberty.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019