Washy Washy Clean
This short music video jingle for kids helps them learn the proper steps of hand washing.
Date of Publication: April 13, 2020
Type of Material: Music Video
Aha ye de – Ntom tom Be Wu
This 3 minute music video is a remix of Ghanaian singer Nana Boroo’s hit single Ahayede. The song, featuring Nana Boroo, encourages everyone to sleep under a treated net. The video shows people sleeping under various types of nets, and the correct way to hang a net.
Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
Health Communication Component, Pakistan – Music Videos and Jingles
This page provides a series of music videos and jingles produced as part of the Pakistan Health Communication Component project, 2014-2018.
Included are:
- Roshan – promotes indigenised solutions to local problems and communal support and harmony in overcoming barriers to accessing health care services, especially for improving mother and child health.
- Paiman – promotes the responsibility of family members especially of husband for providing extra care to a pregnant woman with the aim of insuring an improved maternal and neonate outcomes.
- Maa – portrays the story of a boy whose mother died giving him birth due to unpreparedness and how he spent his childhood and adulthood trying to imagine how she looked and how he lost the love.
- Zindagi – promotes the responsibility of family members for providing extra care to a newborn with the aim of insuring an improved neonate and child outcomes.
Source: USAID, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
Rhythm of Life Music and Health Festival – Zambia
“Rhythm of Life” is Zambia’s first music festival and health fair developed under the Health Communication Partnership, a six-year project funded by USAID, which provided family planning, reproductive health and maternal and child health service, HIV counseling and testing, counseling and referral for male circumcision, malaria testing, and other health counseling services.
Bringing together the top musicians in Zambia in a training to be Health Ambassadors, this effort also led up to a “We are the World”-style music video and performance that included all the artists in a wildly popular song called “Rhythm of Life” featuring the legendary Oliver Mtukudzi. The lyrics of the song are about taking responsibility for your own health.
Links to the songs are as follows:
- Rhythm of Life – Studio 53 SABC Clip
- Rhythm of Life Music Video
- Rhythm of Life Musician Health Ambassadors Workshop (Siavonga)
Source: Johns Hopkins University CCP, MoH Zambia and partners with support from the United States Agency for International Development
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
Shuga Tour Live
The strategies of bringing the MTV Shuga messaging to live audiences for more personalised involvement of staff and celebrities and for providing actual HIV testing opportunities resulted in the creation of touring festivals/shows. The organization of touring festivals consisted of events that involve performance, particularly popular music performance, and episode screenings, including face-to-face opportunities through peer education outreach at the events, usually in major urban areas.
For example, in 2015 in Nigeria, the project reach of a 3-city tour was approximately 3,500 people in Lagos, 500 people in Calabar, and 500 in Abuja.
In addition, screenings of MTV Shuga episodes for audiences at universities and community and youth centres increase the face-to-face interactions of Peer Educators. These events, for example, raised the number of face-to-face exposure to 60,000 people in Nigeria in the spring of 2015.
Source: MTV Staying Alive Foundation
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019