The Gender Agenda: Making HIV Responses Work for Key Affected Women and Girls [Video]

UN Women joined forces with the Asia Pacific Interagency Task Team on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (IATT) and the Unzip the Lips Campaign to produce a short video on women most at risk of, and most affected by, HIV in the Asia Pacific region. The video highlights the needs and rights of key affected women and girls in a concentrated epidemic.

The video was shown to 260 delegates from 34 countries at the UN ESCAP Asia-Pacific High-level Intergovernmental Meeting on HIV/AIDS held in February 2012.

Source: UN Women, Asia Pacific Interagency Task Team on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (IATT)

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Get PrEPared: What African Women Need to Know!

This video offers practical and easy-to-understand information for young African women interested in using Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV. It presents PrEP as a “game-changer” in the lives of young African women, and explains how it works and how one should take it.

Source: RHI

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking

The Girl Effect Project is about leveraging the unique potential of adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves, their families, their communities, their countries and the world. This video outlines the effect of taking a 12 year old girl out of the cycle of early marriage, childbirth, and prostitution – and how it can change society for generations to come.

Source: The Nike Foundation

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Girls at Risk: Discussion Tool

This is a discussion tool video to be used in conjunction with the series “Untold Stories in a Time of HIV and AIDS” which aimed to build and train a community of new voices to write, produce and make local content programs. Although a regional series, it was made up of nine separate local films. Each partner organisation produced one film with its own distinct local voice. The films were produced in local languages, but the series as a whole was sub-titled into English (in Mozambique the whole series was sub-titled into Portuguese).

This tool consists of a twelve minute DVD with extracts from five films in the Untold series, and a discussion booklet, which highlights the risks of ordinary young women and girls in a world of HIV & AIDS.

Source: Soul City

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

GoodLife Ghana Game Show

This game show was designed as a centerpiece of the GoodLife Ghana Project.

GoodLife Ghana was part of the Behavior Change Support (BCS) Project, and was conducted from September 2009 to September 2013. It was designed to assist Ghana Health Services by addressing five key health areas: Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health, Malaria, Nutrition and Water and Sanitation.

The Game Show was open to all Ghanaians who could text their name to the game show managers. Five contestants were chosen for each episode, in which the host tested the knowledge of contestants and audience members on project-related health topics addressed through the GoodLife campaign. The show was extremely popular with viewers from the start, garnering the first and second highest ratings of any show in its timeslot. The winner was awarded a cash prize.

Four seasons of the game show were broadcast from June 2011 – August 2013.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Family Health Division of the Ghana Health Service

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

GoodLife Ghana Theme Videos

These three videos carried the core messages of the GoodLife Ghana campaign about nutrition, family planning, and malaria.

  • GoodLife Malaria – “Let’s come together to drive malaria away for GoodLife. Good life goes with good health.”
  • GoodLife FP – “Life Choices. It’s Your Life. It’s Your Choice. It’s Your GoodLife. Good life goes with good health.”
  • GoodLife Child Nutrition – “Grow. Glow. Go. For GoodLife. Good life goes with good health.”

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, Family Health Division of the Ghana Health Service

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Gyan Jyoti- ASHA Testimonial

A community health worker (ASHA) describes how she worked with couples to motivate them to accept family planning, after they watched the Gyan Jyoti videos on their mobile phones.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Gyan Jyoti Videos for Mobile Phones

These videos were produced to be used on a mobile phone, as part of the Gyan Jyoti project of Project Ujjwal. The videos are shown to couples by community health workers, called ASHAs, and are used as a discussion starter for talking about the use of modern family planning.

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

Health Communication Component, Pakistan – Project Documentaries

This page provides a series of documentaries produced as part of the Pakistan Health Communication Component project, 2014-2018.

The documentaries include:

  • Bright Lives – demonstrates the efforts and impact of USAID-funded Health Communication Component (HCC).
  • ‘Sammi’ – narrates the entire story of the USAID-funded Health Communication Component (HCC)’s entertainment-education drama ‘Sammi’ in a visually appealing manner. The narrative is told in the words of the lead cast, director and the technical lead. The English-language short documentary also covers development, delivery and impact of the drama serial ‘Sammi’.
  • Pakistan’s First Urban Family Planning Project – provides an introduction to ‘Sukh Initiative’ a family planning project (2013 – 2018) implemented in Karachi and highlights its key interventions to building a holistic health eco-system aimed at increasing modern contraceptive use by 15 percentage points.
  • Headline -speaks to the larger media community in Pakistan, and more specifically to media managers, senior journalists, and editors, to build their knowledge on population and family planning issues and also highlight reasons why this remains an underreported subject.
  • Call to Life – based on the intervention that engaged Muslim scholars across Pakistan for promoting mother and child health. It gives a detailed insight into the entire activity. It comprises brief statements by Muslim scholars, representing different Islamic sects, on the issue of mother and child health and success of the intervention.
  • Mohabbatein (Love Story) – focusing on factors leading to poor maternal health. It presents compelling information in a dramatic way, linking the timeless love story of the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan, who lost his wife Mumtaz Mahal while she delivered her 14th child, and issues of maternal and newborn health in Pakistan today.

Source: USAID, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019