Malaria-themed Radio Spots

These are 60-second radio commercials developed in line with the National Malaria Elimination Programme’s slogan – “For a Malaria‐Free Nigeria”. It covers the following thematic areas: ANC, LLINs, Malaria Risk Perception and Testing Before Treatment.

The spots were broadcast in Akwa Ibom, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Bauchi, Sokoto, Benue, Oyo, Kano & Cross River states, in both English and Hausa. In total they were broadcast 44,036 times.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Malaria-themed TV Spots

These are 60-second TV commercials developed in line with the National Malaria Elimination Programme’s slogan – “For a Malaria‐Free Nigeria”. It covers the following thematic areas: ANC, LLINs, Malaria Risk Perception and Testing Before Treatment.

The videos were shown in Akwa Ibom, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Bauchi, Sokoto, Benue, Oyo, Kano & Cross River states in Pidgin, English and Hausa languages. These videos were aired about 12, 993 times. between 2015 and 2017.

Source: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Malawi – Moyo ndi Mpamba Campaign Radio Spots

These radio spots are part of the Moyo ndi Mpanba campaign to promote health behavior change across the six focal health areas.

These radio spots are in Chichewa and cover these topics:

  • Nutrition
  • Pregnancy
  • Family Planning
  • Hygiene
  • Malaria

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

Bites TV Spot

This video is part of the GoodLife project, which had as one of its slogans, “Let’s come together and drive malaria away for the GoodLife.” The “Aha ye de” (“It’s Good Here”) malaria campaign was 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. – See more at: /project-examples/eni-bone-evil-eye#sthash.QPzLKGWo.dpuf

This video is part of the GoodLife project, which had as one of its slogans, “Let’s come together and drive malaria away for the GoodLife.” The “Aha ye de” (“It’s Good Here”) malaria campaign was 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 TV spot shows people sleeping without treated nets and states that the type of mosquitoes with the malaria parasite bite at night. The narrator says that mosquitoes that have malaria don’t care where you sleep, who you sleep with, or what you do on your bed. Every night, they will bite you more times than you can count if you let them. So imagine what damage they can do while you are asleep. The video then shows people sleeping under treated nets.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Multiple Concurrent Partners TV Spot

A :30 second TV spot aimed at females in which a young girl talks about her many sexual partners. The narrator asks, “How many sexual partners do you have? Have you thought about HIV?” The spot ends with the slogan “Think Talk Act.”

Source: Chemonics

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

No-Scalpel Vasectomy Materials for India

On this page are several materials about No Scalpel Vasectomy (NSV) created by the RESPOND project for Hindi audiences (also translated into English):

  • NSV Brochure describes the no-scalpel vasectomy procedure, how it works, potential side effects, and where it can be obtained.
  • NSV Poster shows a young couple with a child and provides basic information about no-scalpel vasectomy.
  • NSV Radio Spot #1 in which a couple talk about NSV, while a song concerning NSV is sung in the background.
  • NSV Radio Spot #2 in which a couple talk about the benefits for their family of having stopped childbearing through no-scalpel vasectomy (NSV), while a song about NSV is sung in the background.
  • NSV Radio Spot #3 in which two women and one woman’s spouse discuss the safety of no-scalpel vasectomy (NSV), while a song about NSV is sung in the background.
  • NSV Radio Spot #4 in which two men provide basic information on no-scalpel vasectomy (NSV), while a song about NSV is sung in the background.

Source: RESPOND

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Not Every Fever is Malaria – Radio Spots, Phase I

This SBCC campaign in Tanzania was aimed at teaching parents and service providers that it is not correct to treat every child with a fever with malaria treatment, making the assumption that having a fever means that the patient has malaria. The campaign was aimed at educating the general public and the health community.

These radio spots are aimed at the community, explaining how to handle family members with fever.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Not Every Fever is Malaria – Radio Spots, Phase II

This SBCC campaign in Tanzania was aimed at teaching parents and service providers that it is not correct to treat every child with a fever with malaria treatment, making the assumption that having a fever means that the patient has malaria. The campaign was aimed at educating the general public and the health community.

These radio spots are aimed at the community, explaining how to handle family members with fever.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Bilharzia Campaign, Uganda – Radio Spots

These two radio spots were created as part of the Bilharzia Awareness Campaign in Uganda, 2016-2017.

One is about the consequences of Bilharzia, and the other is about the public’s vulnerability to infection. 72% 72% of those who heard radio messages said they heard the campaign slogan, and 48% said they took action as a result.

There were two sets of radio spots in multiple languages (English, Atesto, Luganda, Lugbara, Lukho, Luo, Lusoga, Lugisu, Runyankole Rukiga, Swahili, Lugwere, and Karimojong:

Evaluation of the project showed that almost one half (48%) of respondents who were exposed to campaign radio programming said they had taken some action as a result.

Source: Ministry of Health Uganda

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Plan for Yourself Radio Spot [Kenya]

These radio spots are part of a mass media campaign in Kenya which focused on changing beliefs and behaviors among young men and women ages 25-35 to promote child spacing and informed choice of modern contraceptive methods.

With the campaign slogan of “Plan for Yourself a Good Life,” the materials were designed in local languages for radio, print, and outdoor displays in regions across Kenya where the contraceptive prevalence rates are the lowest. Messages focus on health and other benefits families receive by using family planning, including a higher quality of life for their children.

The materials also promote ANC visits and births at a health facility in order to assist Kenya to reach the Millennium Development Goals and the country’s Vision 2030. The materials were launched just prior to the National Leaders’ Conference on Population and Development which brought nearly 1,000 local, regional and national leaders together to identify ways to address the emerging population challenges and shape the way forward.

The three spots are about child spacing – one from the viewpoint of two young married women, one in which two women talk about another who has not spaced her children, and a third is about two men talking about birth spacing. This spot us about two men talking about family planning. One man tells his friend about his positive expeirence with child spacing.

Source: FHI 360

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019