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Update #47: April 10, 2003
CONTENTS
- FEATURED MATERIAL: Choose your game plan to avoid AIDS
- ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN DEVELOPMENT
- REQUESTS - Capacity building for AIDS prevention
- REQUESTS - Contacts in Malawi
- NEW PUBLICATION ON EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
- NEW ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROJECT (EHP) PUBLICATIONS
- NEW HCMN MEMBERS
Dr. Thakor Hitendrasinh G.
Dr. Dinesh Kimar and Dr. Jatinder Singh
Oyebisi Oluseyi
Peter Olusade Adebimpe
Shambhu Dutta Joshi
Kiran Paudel
Patrick Devos
Francis Folahan Odunuga
Mr. Nihar Ranjan Ojha
Ann Covalt
Joseph Kayode Ogungbohun
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FEATURED MATERIAL - POSTER FROM MALI - Choose your game plan to avoid AIDS
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[Click on the attachment to see the poster itself]
28 x 22 cm. poster which is a color photograph showing the lower torsos of three soccer players dressed in red uniform shorts with their hands crossed. The poster reads:
Choisissez votre tactique de jeu pour vaincre le SIDA... : CAN 2002 : Protégez-vous! Utilisez une capote [English: [Choose your game plan to avoid AIDS... CAN 2000 : Protect yourself! Use a condom]. It was produced by the Caring Understanding Partners (CUP) Initiative with assistance from Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP). Funded by USAID.
Background information: The largest sports event on the continent of Africa - the 23rd African Cup of Nations - was held in Mali in January and February 2002. Together with its partners in Mali, Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso, JHU/CCP launched the "Play for life/Jouer pour la vie" regional HIV/AIDS prevention campaign. The campaign harnessed the positive energy and attention of millions of Africans, particularly young men, which was focused on this tournament. The campaign's messages of hope and concrete information about how to prevent HIV/AIDS, delivered through role model players and African leaders, aimed to influence their fans' attitudes and behaviors around HIV/AIDS. The campaign's slogan was "What's your game plan?" Campaign messages used football terminology to encourage young people to avoid risky ("red and yellow card") behaviors and to develop effective, personal "game plans" to protect themselves from HIV.
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Organization for Women & Children Development
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Liaqat Masih <>, Projects Director for the Organization for Women & Children Development, writes:
Organization for Children & Women Development (OCWD) was formed and is run by the women though we have some committed male members also. We have taken a humble start and focusing on the most neglected and underprivileged women and children in Pakistan. We are focusing women and children residing in distant rural localities and urban areas, which are neglected and suffering from gigantic problems. We are enclosing here with our aims and objectives for your consideration and look forward for a good relationship and cooperation. We want to become members of HCMN for the following reasons, We want to learn as much as can be possible to create awareness regarding prevention from STDs and HIV/AIDS. There is a drastic need to train female Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) and Health Councilors regarding creating awareness among illiterate people of rural areas as well as urban localities of low income people. In both the above mentioned areas TBAs can play a vital role as they are closely associated with the females and in our society it is very difficult to discuss about Reproductive Health issues, contraceptives, STDs and HIV/AIDS, particularly with the women and female youth.
Through need assessment study of some of above mentioned we derived some ideas, which we want to materialize by submitting a concept paper / project proposal to JHU CCP, if it does support. (as we got this idea from the " What's New" and your website) . We want to establish a training/resource center for Reproductive Health issues, Contraceptives, STDs and HIV/AIDS, (not for commercial purposes) in Pakistan and in this regard we request other fellows in the listserv, to contribute in either way.
Organization for Children & Women Development (OCWD) Background information
Vision: To aware and organize under privileged communities for social uplift and integral development of women & children.
Mission: To enable the rural and urban poverty preyed women & children to enjoy a meaningful life without any vulnerability and gain economic aplomb.
Goal: Our goal is "empowerment and welfare of the women & children of rural & urban poverty hit communities to be nimble partners in renovation and development process"
Target Area: The women & children of rural and urban neglected communities is target area for OWCD development work.
Aims & Objectives of OWCD: OWCD is working for the total human development at the grass root level. The mission of OWCD is to enable the rural and urban poverty preyed women & children to enjoy a meaningful life without any vulnerability and gain socio-economic aplomb. OWCD is focusing its efforts on the following: Poverty Alleviation, Skill Development, Micro financing, Income Generation Programs, Education, Basic/Primary Education, Adult Literacy, Health Education, Health (general and reproductive), School Health, Counseling & Rehabilitation, Refugees & Evicted Women, Drug addicted & HIV Affected, Prisoners, Victims of Violence & Sexual Abuse
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REQUESTS - Capacity building for AIDS prevention
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Dr. Hitendrasinh G. Thakor in India is looking for materials and literature on capacity building for AIDS prevention. Does anyone have any suggestions of especially good resources?
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REQUESTS - Contacts in Malawi
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Dear Colleagues,
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) seeks your recommendations of individuals and organizations working in Malawi to improve young people's sexual and reproductive health. AGI, in collaboration with partners in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Uganda, is conducting a five-year, in-depth research and communications project on the sexual and reproductive behaviors, attitudes and motivations of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa. The project, "Protecting the Next Generation: Understanding HIV Risk Among
Youth," is supported by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.
The ultimate goal of this project is to communicate new, policy and program-relevant knowledge to a range of audiences, including health care providers, program administrators, media, and government officials, in each focus country, regionally and internationally. Beth Fredrick, Vice President, Communications and Development and Jennifer Nadeau, Ph.D., Director of Communications plan to visit Malawi this summer to learn more about current efforts and what is needed in terms of linking research
focusing on young people to program and policy development. During the trip we hope to meet with nongovernmental organizations, government officials, journalists, program administrators, educators, health care providers and marketing professionals. If you think that we should meet with you or any of your colleagues there, please let us know.
Feel free to contact us for additional information on "Protecting the Next Generation".
Thank you for your participation,
Leila Darabi
Communications Assistant
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
120 Wall Street, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10005
(212) 248-1111, ext. 2216
NOTE: Alan Guttmacher sent a complete project description but I was afraid it would cause this e-mail to bounce for many of you. If you'd like to get the complete description, please e-mail me personally at or Leila Darabi at for a copy. Thanks!
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NEW PUBLICATION ON EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
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Emergency Contraception Tool Kit Available
http://www.aed.org/publications/ECtoolkit3283.pdf
A new publication from the Academy for Educational Development contains a wealth of information about emergency contraception (to prevent pregnancy up to five days after unprotected sex) for adolescents and the people who work with them. The tool kit, Building Emergency Contraception Awareness Among Adolescents: A Tool Kit for Schools and Community-Based Organizations, also contains many useful materials and resources. The tool kit, developed for educators, youth workers, and school-based health practitioners, draws on AED's five years of experience increasing EC awareness and access in New York City and California. For a free copy, contact Linda Simkin (), or download the PDF file at http://www.aed.org/publications/ECtoolkit3283.pdf.
Linda Simkin
Senior Program Officer
Academy for Educational Development
100 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10011
(phone)
(fax)
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NEW ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROJECT (EHP) PUBLICATIONS
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BEST PRACTICES FOR DENGUE PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN THE AMERICAS
The best practices include 11 examples of practices currently in use in several countries--nine from the Americas, one from Southeast Asia, and one of global application. The examples selected are well established and consistent with the conceptual framework proposed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in 1994 for comprehensive, i i integrated dengue prevention and control. For more information or a hard copy of the report, contact .
A 645 KB PDF version of the document is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Strategic_papers/SR-7.pdf
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END-OF-PROJECT REPORT: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROJECT CESH BENIN ACTIVITY,
GESTION COMMUNAUTAIRE DE LA SANTE ENVIRONNEMENTALE II (GESCOME II)
The Benin activity implemented by EHP was developed as a joint programming activity by the USAID/Benin Family Health Team and the Democracy and Governance Office. The activity was known in Benin as Gestion Communautaire de Santé Environnementale II or GESCOME II (Community Management of Environmental Health). The goals were to (1) prevent diarrheal disease in young children and (2) support the Mission's efforts to strengthen ties between municipal and departmental levels of government. For more information or a hard copy of the report, contact .
A 1.5 MB PDF version of the end-of-project report is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Activity_Reports/AR113.pdf
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GHANA URBAN HEALTH ASSESSMENT
The Environmental Health Project conducted an assessment of urban health needs in Ghana in July 2002. Although Ghana's cities are growing rapidly, national development policies and international assistance packages have not yet focused attention on the needs of urban populations. USAID/Ghana requested this assessment in preparation for a strategic planning exercise that will determine the future direction of its population, health and nutrition assistance. For more information or a hard copy of the report, contact
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A 959 KB PDF version of the report is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Activity_Reports/AR114.pdf
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URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PILOT ACTIVITIES: EVALUATION OF PROGRESS AND LESSONS LEARNED, USAID/DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Three urban health pilot activities begun in 2000--market sanitation and hygiene in Kinshasa; water, sanitation and hygiene in Kananga; and a community-based environmental health program in Kinshasa--have been completed. The pilot projects focused on hygiene improvement for diarrheal disease prevention. This report documents findings from the evaluation of the pilot activities, the lessons learned from the activities, and the implications of the lessons learned related to future programming in environmental health. For more information or a hard copy of the report, contact .
A 269 KB PDF version of the report is available at: http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Activity_Reports/AR116.pdf
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NEW HCMN MEMBERS:
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Dr. Thakor Hitendrasinh G.
Title: Consulting Family Physician
Organization: Samprapt- AIDS Prevention Group
Address: 53, Wadiangar Society, Adajan road.
City: Surat / State: Gujarat / Postal code:395009
Country: India
E-mail address:
Phone: 91-261-2687746 /
Dr. Thakor would like materials and literature for capacity building and strengthening efforts for AIDS prevention.
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Dr. Dinesh Kimar and Dr. Jatinder Singh
Organization: Health and Development Initiative-India
Address: 56, Pink Plaza, Amritsar-143001, Punjab, India
Website: www.healthinitiative.org
E-mail: Dr. Dinesh Kumar:
Dr. Jatinder Singh:
Telephone: Dr. Dinesh Kumar: 91-183-2507940
Dr. Jatinder Singh: 91-183-2228935
We are a small size NGO working in Punjab State of India. Our activities include supporting DOTS expansion in India. We maintain a regularly updated website, bring out an e-zine 'TB News from India' and publish patient education materials. One of our publications 'TB FAQs in Hindi' has been catalogued and included in library collection of MMC of John Hopkins Centre for Communication Programs. We are in the process of publishing this booklet in Punjabi as well. In the coming months we plan to publish a pamphlet in Hindi and Punjabi on ' Sputum Examination for diagnosis of Tuberculosis under DOTS program'.
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
OYEBISI OLUSEYI
Organization: The Conservators
Address: P.O.BOX 29439, SECRETARIAT, IBADAN, OYO STATE NIGERIA
TEL: 234-2-2410388
E-mail:
I am the president and initiator of The Conservators. The Conservators is an organization helping to bridge the gap between research and the rural population . It has been observed that most health research have not been well diseminated to the rural class which in most cases are the most vulnerable to disease attacks . It can easily be seen that lack of infrastructure, illiteracy , unavalabilty of social amenities, no acess to information and materials have been a major problem. Hence the need to take this informations to
their door step. In a recent study on the evaluation of extension media in the diffussion of innovations in Oyo State Nigeria, it was rightly observed that the rural populace got most of its information needs through extension with little or no acess to electronic or print media. Health facilities in most developing countries are not in the best form especiallty in the rural areas. Most health problems faced through out the world today are endemic in the rural areas due to lack of information on health hazards and related problems in developing countries. Hence the need for this gap to bridged to help avert the costly consequences of ignorance. I have as a matter of urgency taken it upon myself to teach a rural class on haelth issues to through the use of proper extension work. To me a healthy ruaral class brings about a strong agriculture. Only when the rural class can understand health issues can the health sector claim success. It should therefore be noted that a handful of information materials goes a long way in helping to acheive these aims. We appreciate our mambership of HCMN and we are also proud to be a member. Thanks in anticipation as look forward to hearing from you soon. We wish to request that other members' addresses also be sent to us . We hope to send in our latest research paper on extension and health information in developing countries to you as soon as it is completed.
Yours faithfully
OYEBISI .B.OLUSEYI
PRESIDENT THE CONSERVATORS
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
PETER OLUSADE ADEBIMPE
Organization: AGP-AWARENESS GROUP PROJECT
Address: 2, SOWEMIMO CLOSE, ONIKOLOBO, ABEOKUTA, OGUN State 11000
Country: NIGERIA
Phone: 234-39-245633
Email -
Interests: Reproductive Health
AS THE NAME OF THE ORGANISATION INDICATED, WE CREATE AWARENESS IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RELATED FIELDS.
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Shambhu Dutta Joshi
Organization: Nepal Medical College
Address: Jorpati-9, PO Box 13344, Kathmandu, BAGMATI State
Country: Nepal
Phone: 977-1-484897
Email:
Interests: Reproductive Health, General Health, Environment, Infectious Diseases, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Sanitation/Hygiene
Our organisation is a non profit organisation working in the field of health services in different community level and it is a teaching hospital also.
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Kiran Paudel
Post Box: 20425
Kathmandu, Nepal
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Patrick Devos
HIV/AIDS communication adviser
Organization: Danida
Address: Av J Nyerere 1162, Maputo , PO BOX 4588 MOZAMBIQUE
Phone: 19792
Email:
Interests: Adolescent Health. I provide support to Ministry of Education, designing effective HIV prevention. Defining a comprehensive response to the crisis.
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Francis Folahan Odunuga
ORGANISATION: ACTION HEALTH INCORPORATED,NIGERIA
ADDRESS: #1,MABINUORI STREET,OFF AYODELE
STREET,LADI-LAK B/STOP,BARIGA,LAGOS STATE,NIGERIA. 23401
E-MAIL:
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Mr. Nihar Ranjan Ojha
Director NIRANJAN WORLD
Sithaloi,Rudrapur- 755005, Orissa, INDIA
E-Mail:-
Phone:- (06725) 264663
Interested to join in HCMN as a member. I am a social worker and working as the Diector of an autonomous voluntary organisation named as The NIRANJAN WORLD. I wish to share my experience and materials with other HCMN members. Though I am working in a voluntary organisation and I am interested in social work so wish to join in HCMN as a member. Note- I am the founder and director of this organisation. Now a days we are working in the field of health, AIDS/HIV etc.
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Ann Covalt
Freelance science writer/editor
Address: 4501 16th St., N., Arlington VA 22207 USA
Phone: 703.243.1219
Fax: 703.243.1545
Interests: General Health
I'm a consulting writer and editor specializing in international development and public health. Products include proposals, technical and annual reports, books, articles, press releases, websites, and other materials.
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NEW HCMN MEMBER:
Joseph Kayode Ogungbohun
TITLE: MEDICAL PRACTITIONAL
ORGANISATION: CALVARY REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CENTRE
FULL ADDRESS: P. O. BOX 09, OWODE YEWA SOUTH, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
EMAIL:
I want to join HCMN because it is playing a vital role in controlling infections diseases and some other killer diseases. It is a resources center for me to educate the adole scents young adults, churches of God, commercial sex workers in my local government. I want to join because of the enlightenment involved in the program. Above all, it is a life-changing programme. Iwill be very grateful if my membership is considered. Thanks so much for your usual cooperation and assistance.
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Welcome to all of you to HCMN. Please send in your materials and your questions as well as reports on your own activities.
Peggy D'Adamo
for the Health Communication Materials Network
Peggy D'Adamo
Health Communication Materials Network
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, MD 21202 USA
(tel); (fax)
http://www.hcmn.org
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