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Pos or not? by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Today's New York Times highlighted www.posornot.com, a new web-based game sponsored by MTV's college network (MTVu) and the Kaiser Family Foundation that seeks to promote ... Read on »
A nice version of the old standby by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy PACT recently developed a set of HIV "picture codes" (photographic cue cards) for use by peer educators in Botswana. The cards, which feature photographs of real people e ... Read on »
Will they do it for money? by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The World Bank and other donors are funding a new three-year study exploring the impact of conditional cash transfers on HIV incidence in Tanzania. Intervention-arm study ... Read on »
Sex Work, Violence and HIV by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy PSI conducts interventions with sex workers in all of the regions in which we work.  Often when seeking to understand target group needs through formative research, issue ... Read on »
Telling the story: peer interviews and personal narrative by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy ...And while we're on the topic of reality radio: National Public Radio's popular StoryCorps project invites pairs of community members - friends, partners, parents and ... Read on »
"Dear diary...": A personal approach to stigma reduction by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Radio and video diaries have become an increasingly popular format for HIV communication interventions in recent years. This trend is nowhere more evident than in care an ... Read on »
Have you been carded? by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS), a non-profit dedicated to preventing disease transmission and enhancing sexual well-being through technology, maintains inS ... Read on »
The quick and dirty on BCC by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The INFO Project recently published a Population Report entitled Communication for Better Health, which provides brief overviews of a number of key topics in behavior chan ... Read on »
Thinking about Scale by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) based at Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs recently published Taking Community Empowerment to S ... Read on »
Save the Drama by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The HIV/AIDS Alliance recently released a publication Feel! Think! Act!: A Guide to Interactive Drama for Sexual & Reproductive Health with Young People that provides too ... Read on »
World Water Day and PSI by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy PSI celebrated World Water Day this March 22.  The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Env ... Read on »
Faithfulness Across the Animal Kingdom by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In Most Species, Faithfulness is a Fantasy, the NY Times reported today in an article that highlights Eliot Spitzer’s indiscretions in a context that places monogamy as a ... Read on »
Cell Phones: Innovative Media Channel by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Cell phones are increasingly being used as media channels to convey health-related information. Cell phones are being integrated into interventions as a communication tool ... Read on »
UNICEF Promotes Point of Use Water Treatment by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy “ Treating water at the household level has been shown to be one of the most effective and cost-effective means of preventing waterborne disease in development and eme ... Read on »
Audience-centered Messages by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy There was an interestingarticlepublished earlier this week in the New York Times entitled “Talking with Children about Sex and AIDS: When to Start?” The article highlight ... Read on »
PSI on You Tube! by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy PSIrecently launched a page on YouTube that features a selection of television spots representing several health areas: including: HIV, family planning, malaria, and ... Read on »
Thinking about Pre-Testing by Hope H. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy An article recently published in the Journal of Health Communication brings to light a number of different issues surrounding how health communication messages are pre-tes ... Read on »