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June 17, 2005
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Message from Susan:
Hello, HCMN'ers! Thanks to so many of you for welcoming me back, it is great to be back in touch with you again. Please see below our new initiative - topic-specific emails - and please VOTE on your preferences!
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In this issue:
- A new service - topic-specific HCMN emails
- Two messages from members
- New members
1. NEW ----HEALTH COMMUNICATION MATERIALS OF THE MONTH
VOTE ON THE HOT TOPICS OF THE MONTH!
Over the next year, HCMN members will receive an email each month offering resources about materials and materials development on a specific health communication topic (offering links to searches, Internet resources, organizations, etc.), with much of that information coming from HCMN members.
--If HCMN members are interested in doing so, we can also run discussions about the particular issues and challenges related to developing materials on the topics.
--This is a good opportunity for all of us to share our experiences in materials development, pretesting, dissemination, monitoring, and evaluation.
--The accumulated information will be shared via email and via the HCMN website.
--Below is our start on a list of several topics, but we need you to vote on your preferences, or suggest new ones - see information on how to vote below.
Antiretroviral therapy
Malaria
FP/HIV integration
Violence against Women
Microbicides
PMTCT
Safe Motherhood
Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
Resource Centers
Tuberculosis
Water
Youth
VOTE VIA THE INTERNET:
Please vote by going to the voting page HCMN website: http://www.hcpartnership.org/Topics/form.php
YOU CAN ALSO VOTE BY EMAIL...just send an email telling us how you would prioritize the above list....or which NEW topics you would like to see. Priority rating should be: 1=most important, 2=somewhat important, 3=not important.
Send the email to:
YOUR INPUT...Also, get ready to provide materials and information - these emails will be a compilation of input from all of us.
2. MESSAGES FROM MEMBERS
Here are some messages from our members:
FROM: Nduka Ozor ():
CENTRE FOR HIV/AIDS AND STD RESEARCH, Lagos, Nigeria
I am into BCC through magazine productions for the general public, I want something real that can reflect in contents that will impact in changing behaviours. I will want information that can reflect in our environment and make meaning when people are reading through it. I will like to be creative about this assignment. Also I will like to know how to monitor the progress made through reading Magazines. Practical ways of evaluating the progress and possibly improving on it.I discovered that magazine can go a long way to meeting the health challenges of our rural communities. How can we also get supports to scale up our productions.
FROM: Prof. David Morley,
TALC, UK
REMINDER - FREE CD-ROMS FROM TALC!
free TALC CD-ROMs they are particularly suited to the many who find the web sited difficult or expensive to use as shown by a survey reported on the latest No. 7 See " e-TALC questionnaire results" under TALC in Contents. They unlike most contain a wide variety of information suitable to different disciplines. Anyone who wishes to receive them shoals send their address to
3. NEW MEMBERS - WELCOME TO HCMN!
AMY HORTON
Project Assistant
UNESCO Bangkok, ARSH Sub-unit
Bangkok, THAILAND
Email
Advocacy and Educational Support to Adolescent Reproductive Health, UNFPA-funded, UNESCO Bangkok-implemented. Information service provider to ARSH practioners and advocates in Asia and the Pacific region. http://www.unescobkk.org/arsh
FANNIE FONSECA-BECKER
Fannie Fonseca-Becker
Sr. Research Associate
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs
Baltimore, Maryland USA
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The worlwide mission of the Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is to: "Design and implement strategic communication programs that influence political dialogue, collective action, and individual behavior; Enhance access to information and the exchange of knowledge that improve health and health care; and Conduct research to guide program design, evaluate impact, test theories, and advance knowledge in health communication."
ANDUALEM ASSEFA
Health communication partnership (HCP)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
email
I work in a youth focused HIV/AIDS prevention program which has been implemented in a place where HIV/AIDS prevalence is higher within the country, Ethiopia.
DIANE SUMMERS
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
Email
I am responsible for the management and implementation of all strategic communication activities of CCP Nepal in the field of FP/MCH.
CCP Nepal is a partner of USAID's bilateral health program, Nepal Family Health Program, which works to support the FP/MCH policies of the government of Nepal and in particular provides technical support to the MoH/Department of Health Services in delivering quality health services and increasing access and demand for those services.
TINA VAN DIVIER
Area Support Contact
California Lyme Disease Association
Dana Point, California USA
Email
We are a non-profit organization affliated with the Lyme Disease Association. Our purpose is to inform, face to face and on tv, radio and a LYMTIMES Magazine. We are trying to reach more doctors and other health care professionals with info on Lyme, mainly in California. We are very under educated here in Southern California on this disease; that many people have Lyme or one of its co-infactions, but are not aware of what they have and the treatment options.
The Health Communication Materials Network (HCMN) is a community of practice for health communication materials professionals worldwide. HCMN is an activity of the Media/Materials Clearinghouse, which is part of the Health Communication Partnership.
If you have any suggestions or questions about HCMN, please email Susan Leibtag,
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