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Malawi – Moyo ndi Mpamba Campaign Malaria Comic Book

The comic book, part of the Moyo ndi Mpamba, Usamalireni (“Life is precious, take care of it”) campaign, tells the story of Chimwemwe, a primary school girl who suffers from malaria and is absent from school, can’t play and loses her appetite. She receives an anti-malaria drug (Artemether Lumefantrine) at a health center, completes the dosage, is healed, and her life goes back to normal. To reinforce what students have read, the book also contains other activities that include a quiz, a game and a role-play scenario. The comic book is accompanied by a fact sheet for use by teachers.

SSDI-Communication printed 27,050 copies of the comic book in English and Chichewa and distributed these to 2,337 schools and reading centers in 16 districts of the country. In addition to increasing knowledge levels, the malaria comic book stimulated prevention and control behaviors among pupils (e.g. sleeping under a net, cutting down grass, removing stagnant water, early attendance to the clinic upon onset of fever, and completing the dosage of the anti- malarial drug). Apart from the health benefits, the comic book has promoted reading culture amongst school going children, and supplements reading materials in schools.

SSDI-Communication supported the Ministry of Health in realizing its ambitious health promotion agenda by developing and running a multimedia, multi-level Moyo ndi Mpamba, Usamalireni (“Life is precious, take care of it”) campaign, from 2011-2016. The ultimate goal of this campaign was to promote positive health behaviors and create demand for available services across six focus health areas – HIV & AIDS; family planning; nutrition; maternal, neonatal and child health; malaria; and water, sanitation and hygiene – and with audiences across the socio-ecological landscape and all targeted life stages.

Source: SSDI-Communication

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Shuga Graphic Novel

This photonovel is meant to accompany the Shuga TV series. The story tells of a teenage girl who is approached by an older man, who offers to pay her school fees. She ends up in his apartment, and he attempts to seduce her. When she refuses, he beats her. She decides to take the case to court, braving the possibility of her friends’ gossip as well as the threats of the man’s friends, and the defendant is found guilty.

Source: MTV Staying Alive Foundation

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Shuga Comic Book

This comic book is based on the Season 3 story of the Shuga TV Series which was based that year in Nigeria. It tells the story of a young couple, and covers topics such as domestic violence, reproductive health, HIV, HIV testing, faithfulness, and multiple partners. It is meant to accompany the TV series.

Source: MTV Staying Alive Foundation

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Nepal IPCC Modules Comic Book

In order to increase the skills of health workers, and encourage them to apply the ABIBADAN-based counseling approach consistently and effectively. HC3 conducted a 3-day workshop to design supplementary IPCC modules using a scenario-based approach, that HWs can use in a self-learning environment to improve their counseling knowledge, skills and practice. Workshop participants developed the basic contents and scenarios for the supplementary-learning modules. With these supporting documents, HC3 developed and designed paper-based and mobile based application for family planning counseling.

The main five modules are as follows:

  1. Post-partum Family Planning with the objective for FP counselor to consider postpartum family planning a priority for clients starting at 45 days after delivery, demonstrate improved listening and questioning skills with postpartum client, refer EPI and ANC clients to Family Planning providers for counseling, and know what methods are appropriate for PPFP and when to give them.
  2. Client Choice with the objective for FP counselor to have knowledge of the basic steps to Family Planning counseling (ABHIBADAN and DMT), demonstrate improved listening skill with client, have an attitude that it is important to facilitate client choice for FP methods, increased knowledge and skills to facilitate client informed choice on FP method, and reduced provider bias based on parity
  3. Dealing with Side Effects with the objective for FP counselor to have knowledge of how to counsel for side effects before they get a method and if they are having a side effect, knowledge of how to manage side effects, demonstrate improved listening skill with client, and increase empathetic attitude towards clients dealing with side effects
  4. Clearing Misconceptions with the objective for FP counselor to deal the client for informed choice of Method, demonstrate improved clearing misconception skill with client, develop trustful relation with client, increased knowledge and skills to facilitate client informed choice on FP method, and reduced provider misconception on method specific.
  5. Migrants and Emergency Contraception with the objective for FP counselor to have knowledge of how to effectively counsel migrants about family planning, health worker will provide services based on the client’s needs, and increase sensitive attitude towards helping migrants.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Bhanchhin Aama Radio Discussion Group Comic Book

These comic books are pictorial discussion guides for groups that directly link to the Bhanchhin Aama (‘Mother Knows Best’) radio program weekly radio drama and reinfoce the Suaahara program’s integrated nutrition messages and model behaviors. Each week, the radio programs’ characters, issues and messages are discussed at the community level in radio discussion groups that are facilitated by social mobilizers and the groups from existing groups whose members are all from marginalized groups.

The Bhanchhin Aama entertainment education radio program consists of two weekly programs. One is a 30-minute magazine-format (variety style) program which includes drama, vox pop, quiz and inspirational real stories. The second is a weekly program called “Hello Bhanchhin Aama” which is a recorded live call-in program where the trusted character of Bhancchin Aama answers real questions posed by the audience or helps them find the answers from experts.

Suaahara developed and broadcasts three separate programs in order to reach specific audiences and therefore there are three separate comic books.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Bhanchhin Aama Radio Discussion Group Comic Book Phase-III

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.

Bhanchhin Aama Radio Discussion Group Comic Book Phase-III

These comic books are pictorial discussion guides for Citizen Awareness Center groups that directly link to the Bhanchhin Aama (‘Mother Knows Best’) weekly radio drama and reinforce the Suaahara program’s integrated nutrition messages and model behaviors. Each week, the radio programs’ characters, issues and messages are discussed at the community level in radio discussion groups that are facilitated by Social Mobilizers and the Citizen Awareness Center groups from existing groups whose members are all from marginalized groups.

The Bhanchhin Aama entertainment education 39 episode radio program consists of two weekly programs. One is a 30-minute magazine-format (variety style) program which includes drama, vox pop, quiz and inspirational real stories. The second is a weekly program called “Hello Bhanchhin Aama” which is a recorded live call-in program where the trusted character of Bhanchhin Aama answers real questions posed by the audience or helps them find the answers from experts.

Suaahara developed and broadcasts three separate programs (Nepali, Awadhi and Doteli languages) in order to reach specific audiences and therefore there are three separate Comic Books – Nepali, Awadhi and Doteli languages.

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

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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