Life is What You Make It – Theme Song for GoodLife Ghana

“Life is what you make it” is the theme song of the Ghana GoodLife Campaign. The song links personal happiness to the practice of healthy behaviors

The GoodLife song is part of the overarching multimedia campaign and encourages reflection about what makes life “good.” It moves health messages beyond instructive commands to engaging people on issues relevant to their own daily lives. The song says, “Good Life goes with good health.Think about it!”

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

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

The Lingering Effect of Dengue Fever

Three individuals in Malaysia tell the story of how everything changed after they contracted dengue.

Source: Break Dengue

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Malaria-Focused Video Clips for Community Dialogue

These are adapted malaria-focused storylines from a TV serial drama (New Man Street). Screened during community dialogues to an average audience of about 60 persons per session. They were screened 1,277 times to about 74,111 persons. The videos were produced in English and Hausa and were shown in Nasarawa, Benue, Akwa Ibom, Kebbi & Zamfara states.

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 All Stars Music Video

In Malawi, the Moyo ndi Mpamba project implemented a Music4Life initiative, through which musical artists were engaged to produce and perform songs that incorporated health messages. This music video is a product of that initiative, thorugh which famous artists were engaged in the production of a campaign theme song which was distributed to top TV stations in Malawi.

Under guidance from the Music Association of Malawi, the project conducted three regional music festivals that involved song, dance, and health talks. Following the music festivals, SSDI-Communication facilitated production of a music album that featured different famous Malawian artists who are familiar at both the distric and national level in Malawi. The CD was distributed to over 13 national and community radio stations, markets, and freelance DJs in rural and urban areas.

The dissemination of the songs through multiple channels increased the likelihood of them being heard in different gatherings and on various radio programs.

Source: SSDI-Communication

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Medical Aid Films

Medical Aid Films aims to save the lives of vulnerable women and children in the developing world by providing innovative education and training through film.

The company produces resource-appropriate films to support skilled health worker training and community health education – used by over 1,300 organisation in 80 countries worldwide, and reaching more than 1 million people each year.

This web page lists all of the organization’s films.

Source: Medical Aid Films

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Multiple and Concurrent Partners

This 20 minute program tells of a couple with two children. The husband has multiple partners outside the marriage, and eventually the wife throws him out. He realizes that he wants to return to his wife, but his wise uncle counsels him to get tested for HIV before doing so. He finds out he is negative, but realizes what a close call he had.

Source: Soul City

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

NURHI Distance Education Videos for Providers

NURHI (the Nigerian Urgan Health Initiative) launched the Interactive Health Education (iHED) system in November 2013 to provide a platform from which providers (midwives and doctors), primarily within family planning clients and integration points, can access relevant video-based educational content and resources from Android based smart phones or tablets.

The discovery of a high prevalence of myths, misconceptions and provider biases during the NURHI midline evaluation helped direct video development to help improve provider knowledge and performance. Some of the videos portray an “unsupportive” counselor as compared to a “supportive” one.

Source: Johns Hopkins University

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Positive Youth

Positive Youth is a one hour television documentary which follows four HIV+ positive youth (late teens to 27) in four different North American cities in Cinema vérité style.

The film aims to answer the question – what education do youth receive now and why is the youth transmission rate still the highest? It aims to feature accessible and inspirational individuals and the often-rocky road that they’ve traveled to get where they are. Each of the four subjects have been selected to create a dynamic perspective on the reality of living positive today. Medical and psychological experts weigh in to provide up-to-date facts and a historical context to the reality of living positively.

Source: Border2Border Entertainment Inc.

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019