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    Effects of a mass media intervention on HIV-related stigma: ‘Radio Diaries’ program in Malawi

    Health Education Research, 2011
    HIV-related stigma has been recognised as a significant public health issue, yet gaps remain in development and evaluation of mass media interventions to reduce stigma. The Malawi ‘Radio Diaries’ (RD) programme features people with HIV telling stories about their everyday lives. This study evaluates the programme's effects on stigma and the additional effects of group discussion.
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    Use of mass media campaigns to change health behaviour

    The Lancet, 2010
    This review paper, published in the Lancet, discusses the outcomes of mass media campaigns in the context of various health-risk behaviours (such as use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, heart disease risk factors, sex-related behaviours, road safety, cancer screening and prevention, child survival, and organ or blood donation). Key highlights of the paper include:
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    “Vrai Djo” project: a campaign to promote positive male role models in the fight against sexual and gender based violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Search for Common Ground, 2011
    This report presents progress of a Search for Common Ground (SFCG) project aimed at sensitising the population of western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the need to change behaviour towards women, and to shape male attitudes so that they are more respectful and positive towards women. Key results of the project include:
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    ICT as a tool for accessing medical content and knowledge in local languages - Sri Lanka’s perspective

    Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka, 2010
    ICT tools are crucial to providing urgently needed information and knowledge to healthcare professionals and the general public regardless of their geographical location.
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    Improving health outcomes of the poor

    World Health Organization, 2002
    This Report describes the priority interventions that can do most for the health of the poorest billion of the world’s populations. The authors believe that priority health interventions offer a peculiarly effective tool in the fight against poverty.Key interventions include:
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    Trachoma and women: latrines in Ethiopia and surgery in Southern Sudan

    Community Eye Health Journal, 2009
    Trachoma is an infectious disease of the eye caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Bacteria can spread via an infected person’s hands or clothing and may be carried by flies that have come into contact with discharge from the eyes or nose of an infected person.
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    Reaching women in Egypt: a success story

    Community Eye Health Journal, 2009
    In Egypt women are not using eye care services as frequently as men, especially in rural areas. Therefore women in Egypt are more likely than men to suffer from low vision or blindness from avoidable causes. This article in Community Eye Health Journal considers how women can be reached within the community and their level of access to eye health services improved.
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    Working with women to improve child and community eye health

    Community Eye Health Journal, 2009
    In the slums and rural areas of India, visual impairment, blindness, and childhood blindness are usually more prevalent.
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    Why are we addressing gender issues in vision loss?

    Community Eye Health Journal, 2009
    Increasingly it is evident that women are affected by blindness and visual impairment to a much greater degree than men. In 1980 a systematic review of global population-based blindness surveys carried out showed that blindness is about 40 per cent more common in women compared to men. This short article from the Community Eye Health Journal explores the gender dimensions of vision loss.
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    A handbook for network support agents and other community workers supporting HIV prevention, care support and treatment

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
    Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have been trained as Network Support Agents (NSA) to work alongside health care workers in health facilities.

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