How to Breastfeed Poster

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.

The poster emphasize most of the mothers thinking that breast milk is not sufficient to her child. To create environment for mothers to breastfeed exclusively for six months by providing correct information, Suaahara developed this poster and massively disseminated in all the health service centers, local NGOs, district offices and public places.

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

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

HTSP 4 Key Messages

This is a generic type poster that can be used to explain four key messages of HTSP: too young, too old, too close, too soon.

Source: World Vision International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

I Am a Responsible Man. I Repair My Torn Mosquito Nets to Make Them Last and Protect my Family from Malaria

This is one of a set of posters from the NetCare project in Nigeria promoting behaviors to increase the lifespan of malaria nets through careful handling and repair. The poster shows a father identifying and fixing a hole in a mosquito net.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

IPC Handwashing Poster

As part of Tanzania’s program to increase infection prevention and control throughout the country, an SBCC strategy was developed. Part of this strategy was the development of a handwashing poster for display.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Jiamini! Family Planning Campaign Media Brief

Jiamini! is a national campaign in Tanzania designed to empower women to initiate use of modern methods of family planning and encourage male support of family planning. It targets women and couples who want to delay their first pregnancy, wait to have their next child or stop having children, but who are not currently using a modern method of family planning.

By using testimonials from famous Tanzanians using modern methods of family planning, the campaign aims to:

  • Give people confidence to use modern methods
  • Address myths, misconceptions and fears about family planning
  • Encourage couples to talk to each other about family planning
  • Improve male partner support of family planning
  • Increase use of modern methods of family planning

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Key Behavior Poster

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 the year 2014, Suaahara developed this Key Behaviors Poster emphasizes on 7 key messages that Suaahara is promoting as below:

  1. Extra Meal for Pregnant and Lactating Women
  2. Complementary Food
  3. Hand washing with soap water before feeding a baby
  4. How to keep baby away from dirt and save from sickness
  5. Sick Child Feeding
  6. Birth spacing
  7. Give ORS with Zink Tablet when child has diarrhea

The poster was developed, produced and disseminated in Suaahara implementing districts through local NGO partners. The main objective to develop this poster to make District Team/LNGOs/Field Supervisors aware about the key behavior that Suaahara is promoting and all Suaahara Team will be able to say the key practices. The Posters were distributed through regular meetings in each implementing districts.

The poster was also massively distributed among the household belongs to 1000 days mothers, communities, health facilities to promote and spread key messages. At the same time it is also aimed to raise the awareness level among the target groups for their realization and implementation in their practical life.

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

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

La Fistule Obstetricale est Gurrissable!

This poster explains that obstetric fistula is reparable. It encourages women to go to the hospital in Kissidougou for treatment.

Source: EngenderHealth

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

LARCs Posters for Young Women

These seven posters, available in English, are part of a collection of materials that were designed to encourage young women to talk with a health care provider on the benefits of long-acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs).

The posters are titled to engage young women in thinking about whether they are ready to become pregnant, and there is an explanation of long acting reversible contraception and how appropriate it is for young women who want to postpone childbearing.

The collection also includes:

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Let’s Stop HIV Together

This website offers 35 posters from the “Let’s Stop HIV Together Campaign” of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The campaign aims to spread the word in communities and help raise awareness about the impact of HIV, the importance of HIV prevention and testing, the effects of stigma, and how people can work together to increase support for people living with HIV. Each of the 35 posters shows a different audience – gay, lesbian, heterosexual, families, and individuals – whose signature appears under the tagline: “Let’s stop HIV together!” The posters (as well as other materials) are downloadable from the site and are available in English and Spanish.

Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Malaria Health Facility Posters

These serves a dual purpose of job aids for service providers and reminder materials for clients. It has uniform messages per thematic area but are state-specific with images that resonates with cultural and religious leanings in by state.

The thematic categories covered are:

  1. MALARIA IN PREGNANCY – Job aid and reminder tips on ANC registration, LLIN use and care, IPT Information and appropriate IPT administration to pregnant women
  1. ANC/IPT – A reminder material for Clients to register early for ANC and take at least 3 doses of IPT during every pregnancy
  1. MALARIA PREVENTION – A reminder material for Clients on the three steps to malaria prevention; sleeping inside LLIN every night all rea round, treating confirmed cases of malaria with only ACTs and attending ANC and taking at least 3 doses of IPT during every pregnancy
  1. ACT – A reminder material for both Clients and Service Providers to always treat every confirmed case of malaria with only ACTs
  1. RDT – A material targeted at Caregivers to know that “Not Every Fever is Malaria” and RDT test can confirm if it is malaria or not under 10-15 minutes.

The posters were used in Nasarawa, Benue, Akwa Ibom, Kebbi & Zamfara between 2015-2017, and were produced in English and Hausa. Approximately 313 health facilities received posters to use within the clinics.

The English versions of the posters are available here.

The Hausa versions are available here.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication for Communication

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019