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Innovation Webinar 2: Research Methodologies in Health Communication

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These presentations were part of the September 10, 2013 Innovation in Health Communication Webinar: Research Methods in Health Communication. Exploring Gender and Sexual Norms in Mozambique through Projective Techniques Maria Elena Figueroa, PhD, Associate Scientist in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) Emerging Participatory Research Methods for Digital Health Communicati…

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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Implications for the Provision of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Results of a Systematic Literature Review

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… This literature review revealed a general absence of health services in Sub-Saharan Africa that addressed the needs specific to male adolescents, exposing potential knowledge gaps that could negatively influence the population’s benefit from voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programming. This article was published on March 3, 2016, in Volume 11, Issue 3 of PLOS ONE. Download the Article …

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Estudio Sobre la Presencia de Emisoras de Radio, Programación y Potenciales Alianzas con Estas en las Zonas Prioritarias del Programa Integrado del Altiplano Occidental de Guatemala

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… Este informe presenta los hallazgos de una investigación formativa cualitativa realizada en cinco comunidades rurales del altiplano de Guatemala sobre la presencia de emisores de radio, los tipos y las características de su programación, la penetración de programas radiales, las preferencias de programación de sus radio-oyentes, y el interés de los emisores de radio en abordar temas de desarrollo y salud comunitario en su programación. Descargar …

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Estudio Sobre la Presencia y Actuación de las Diversas Iglesias, Organizaciones y Ministerios Religiosos en las Zonas Prioritarias del Programa Integrado del Altiplano Occidental de Guatemala

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… Este informe presenta los hallazgos de una investigación formativa cualitativa realizada en cinco comunidades rurales del altiplano de Guatemala para identificar y describir las iglesias, organizaciones y ministerios religiosos con presencia física y actuación activa, e investigar el interés de sus líderes religiosos en colaborar con programas de desarrollo y salud en la promoción de esos temas a través de su labor religioso. Descargar …

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The impact of behaviour change communication on the use of insecticide treated nets: a secondary analysis of ten post-campaign surveys from Nigeria

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Ahead of an ITN mass distribution campaign in Nigeria, the authors of this article conducted a secondary analysis of surveys conducted after ITN distributions between 2009 and 2012 to investigate the role of social and behavior change communication in adequate net hanging and use, and how this may influence SBCC efforts for the next campaign. This article was first published as Article 422 in Volume 15 of the Malaria Journal on August 19, 2016. D…

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The Role of Health Systems and Policy in Producing Behavior and Social Change to Enhance Child Survival and Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Examination of the Evidence

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This review provides conclusions and recommendations on the studies of evidence-based behavior change interventions that addressed health systems or policy. The author’s recommendations are offered around each topic area (pneumonia/diarrhea, neonatal survival, nutrition, PMTCT, malaria, healthy pregnancies, and immunizations) that is classified by the World Health Organization Health System Building Blocks of health system delivery, health workfo…

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Community Engagement to Enhance Child Survival and Early Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Evidence Review

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An evidence review team was organized to address the question, ‘‘What are the effective means to facilitate and empower communities to organize and advocate for interventions to achieve behavioral and social changes that are needed to accelerate reductions in under-5 mortality and optimize healthy and protective child development to age 5?’’ This article is a report from the evidence review team. This article was first published on September 10, …

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Scaling Up and Sustaining Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Maintaining HIV Prevention Benefits

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This article asserts that, in order to maintain high circumcision prevalence, voluntary medical male circumcision programs in Eastern and Southern Africa need to plan for sustainability and conduct transition assessments early on, rather than waiting until the saturation of priority targets at the end of the program. This article was first published on July 1, 2016, in Volume 4, Supplement 1 of Global Health: Science and Practice. Download the Ar…

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Enhancing Benefits or Increasing Harms: Community Responses for HIV Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Transgender Women, Female Sex Workers, and People Who Inject Drugs

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A synthesis of evidence characterizing community-level determinants and their influence on HIV-related outcomes for key populations, this systematic review revealed a limitation of studies conducted that focused on key populations in LMICs. The authors stress the importance of health communication programs, demonstrated to be effective in increasing HIV testing uptake and decreasing the stigma of people living with HIV, that continually measure c…

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Role of Community-Level Factors Across the Treatment Cascade: A Critical Review

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This review – the first critical review of literature that examines the role community-level factors (CLFs) play in the design of multilevel, effective and sustainable interventions that address all elements of the HIV/AIDS treatment cascade – identified 100 peer-reviewed articles based on studies in LMICs that assessed CLFs in relation to the HIV/AIDS treatment cascade. This article was part of a special issue of JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immun…

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HIV Communication Capacity Strengthening: A Critical Review

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This gray literature review examined varying definitions, measurements, implementations and effects of HIV communication capacity strengthening. Based on their review, the authors make recommendations for establishing a holistic model for HIV communication capacity strengthening, among other things. This article was part of a special issue of JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes that was devoted to health communication and its r…