Every day in Africa, cell phones are used to connect hundreds of millions of people, share information among businesses and transfer bank funds from one end of the continent to the other. Now they are being used to empower health advocates to combat an age-old
“I now understand why it is important to sleep in a net every night,” explains a 10 year old student at Majenjo Primary School in Soroti district in eastern Uganda. Why so much focus on malaria in the already-packed school curriculum? “Mr. Okoyi James Peter,
Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The torment faced by Samuel Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner” is shared by 1.1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to safe drinking water. This lack of access has deadly consequences. 400 children under age five die
On March 3, AFFORD partners and stakeholders joined USAID and the Ugandan Ministry of Health to celebrate the successful conclusion of the first phase of the AFFORD Health Marketing Initiative. In addition to creating UHMG – an indigenous organization – and building the capacity of
Rock Point 256, a 30-minute radio serial drama for young people in Uganda, was voted the best radio program of 2010 by readers of the New Vision, the leading daily newspaper in Uganda. Rock Point 256 tells the story of people who live in a
In Uganda, “side dish” partners – sexual partnerships that exist concurrently with long-term relationships – are common. Get off the Sexual Network! is CCP’s provocative response. The irony in Uganda is that while the HIV infection rate is on the rise, the increase is not
“Married couples are more likely to have HIV”, states one poster. “Just because you are HIV positive does not mean your partner is too”, announces another. A third poster responds: “HIV couple testing brought us closer together.” The HIV infection rate is increasing in Uganda,
On 14 September, 2010, Uganda’s Ministry of Health launched the long-awaited policy on safe male circumcision for HIV prevention, during a ceremony presided over by the Minister of State for Health Honourable Dr. Richard Nduhura. WHO and UNAIDS recommended in 2007 that adult male circumcision
The “One Love” campaign, run by the Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG)/AFFORD Project and the advertising agency ZK/Uganda, brought home gold and bronze prizes at the recent TBWA AFRI CANNES Award ceremony. TBWA is a global network of advertising agencies with over 30 offices across
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP) has won a Global Media Award by the Population Institute for Best Serial Drama. The annual awards honor those who have contributed a greater public awareness of the various challenges related to
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