Key Tips for the Prevention of Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya: A Guide for Home Visits

This tool(available in English and Spanish) is for community volunteers and health promoters to facilitate home visits in support of the promotion of key behaviors for Zika, dengue, and chikungunya prevention. Each card has two sides, one with images to use when talking with the family and the other with information and images to help the volunteer understand and discuss each behavior.

Organizations, institutions, and projects can adapt the tool to the needs of their organization and country, and Breakthrough ACTION has developed an accompanying guide (in Spanish) that recommends how to adapt the tool to specific needs.

There are also Zika-specific job aids (available in English and Spanish), along with Spanish versions specific to Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: April 13, 2020

How to See DHS Data for Health

This material was developed as part of a capacity development program for service providers. The guide aims to teach health personnel how to perform data analysis for planning Social and Behavior Change (SBC) programs and activities.

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: April 13, 2020

Message Harmonization Fact Sheet

This brief summarizes how health messages were harmonized in the Ethiopia Communication for Health project. It is a tool that was used to help health providers, program implementers, media professionals, and other stakeholders to effectively communicate with their audiences for a better public health outcome.

Source: Communication for Health Ethiopia

Date of Publication: February 6, 2020

Religious Leaders Engagement – Pocket Guide

This is a pocket guide for religious leaders, to serve as reference when they discuss health issues with their congregations. As they deliver guidance to their followers/congregations, this guide provides them with key messages mainly on maternal and child health, child feeding practices, sanitation and hygiene, and malaria.

Source: Communication for Health Ethiopia

Date of Publication: February 6, 2020

School Health Promotion Fact Sheet

This one page document provides a summary on the Communication for Health school health intervention which operated by strengthening school clubs and providing support in conducting and celebrating school health days.

Source: Communication for Health Ethiopia

Date of Publication: February 6, 2020

FP Method Comparative Effectiveness Flex and Guideline

The Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP-I) was a six-year (2002-2007) bilateral activity of United States Agency for International Development, Nepal (USAID/N) with the Government of Nepal. Its overall goal was to support the Government’s long-term goal of reducing fertility and under-five mortality within the context of the National Health Policy and Second Long-Term Health Plan 1997-2017.

This client-focused job aid/wallchart on Comparative Effectiveness of Family Planning Contraceptive Methods and its accompanying use guideline were produced and disseminated in all Core Program District (CPDs) health facilities of NFHP. They were used by community health workers during FP counseling and service to make their work more effective.

In the chart, all the contraceptive method pictures are indicated based on its effectiveness and included are some important reminders for the counselor to relay to the clients during the session. The wall chart to be hanged or posted on the wall where community health worker can easily see it and ute it during FP counseling.

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

Date of Publication: December 11, 2019

Dialog Frameworks for PBC Officers

This is an interactive malaria messaging guide for providers to use when counseling clients about various malaria issues. It was created as part of a wider Provider Behavior Change project.

The messaging covers:

  • Methods for Diagnosis
  • Quality Assurance for mRDT
  • Finding the Correct Ailment

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: December 11, 2019

Discussion Posters

The Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP-I) was a six-year (2002-2007) bilateral activity of United States Agency for International Development, Nepal (USAID/N) with the Government of Nepal. Its overall goal was to support the Government’s long-term goal of reducing fertility and under-five mortality within the context of the National Health Policy and Second Long-Term Health Plan 1997-2017.

Under the Group Health Education and Communication Program, a set of discussion posters was developed, corresponding with the modules messages on maternal and neo-natal health, child health and family planning. These were used by the facilitators (FCHVs) as a topic and message guide while conducting their regular mother’s group and monthly group meetings. The materials were also used by other rural group facilitators who conduct health education session as a part of their work.

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

Date of Publication: December 11, 2019

Safe Motherhood Program Posters

The Nepal Family Health Program (NFHP-I) was a six-year (2002-2007) bilateral activity of United States Agency for International Development, Nepal (USAID/N) with the Government of Nepal. Its overall goal was to support the Government’s long-term goal of reducing fertility and under-five mortality within the context of the National Health Policy and Second Long-Term Health Plan 1997-2017.

These posters were part of the Safe Motherhood Program activity of NFHP, promoting Skilled Birth Attendants and Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness. They were distributed to all the health facilities of 17 CPDs and also to the NGOs and CBOs of the CB-MNCH district for wider use.

In adddition, the program produced a job aid for health workers on management of the third stage of labor and on family planning counseling and disseminated to all health facilities, PHCCs and Hospitals of 17 Core Program Districts through National Health Education Information and Communication Center (NHEICC) by its partners.

Feedback from the field indicated that the materials had been very effective in filling a major gap for district lever service providers, helping them to better explain about the health messages to a women and their families.

The materials were also being used by the other stakeholders involved in the safe motherhood such as GTZ, SSMP in their respective districts.

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

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Alcohol Negotiation Wheel Game

This game is designed to enhance knowledge and skills for avoiding alcohol and drug use and to encourage knowledge, attitude and practice for not using alcohol and drugs.

It helps to build the capacity of beneficiaries to negotiate drugs and alcohol use for safer sexual behavior.

Source: USAID

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019