Five memorable sets healthcare

Health campaigns to be effective not high-tech. Photo: Graeme Robertson
It is easy to successful public health campaigns take for granted. Once behavior has become a habit, or a vaccination programme is manufactured, it is present difficult to live without them. But the defeat of disease and the end of the harmful conduct coordinated team work and ideas that work.
Here, some of the best public-health campaigns in the global South are recommended by our community for the impact had to stop preventable diseases.
A poster with a HIV-awareness message for young people in Zambia. Source: Uttara Sumesh Kumar
Each other act responsibly together was a campaign to raise awareness (heart) and reduces the spread of human immunodeficiency virus in Zambia. It focuses on young people, news "abstain or a condom use, everytime you have sex" TV and radio were with their input and disseminated through posters, print,.
In 2009 of a follow-up campaign, One Love, Kwasila!, used multimedia to disseminate messages about how the virus can spread it through multiple and concurrent sex partners. A TV series called Club risky business featured three men, exchanging stories about their relationships in a bar. A question was asked at the end of each episode for the audience to answer via SMS. More than 17,000 texts went and the campaign sent messages, targeted HIV awareness these numbers.
Recommended by Uttara Sumesh Kumar, program senior officer, John Hopkins University Center for communication programs.
In the 1980s, a community health staff teaches village women about drinking solution. Source: Brac
In the 1980s, specially trained female health workers visited 13 million households in the country and drinking solution (local) taught women personally at home with salt and sugar to make. Due to this campaign, Bangladesh is now the highest use of place in the world (over 80%).
Recommended by Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury, Deputy Chairman and interim executive Director, Brac.
Poster for a HIV awareness campaign for people with disabilities. Source: World Vision India
Not directly in the sights take all too often disabled people on the benefits of public health campaigns such as they. In the case of HIV / AIDS it is often assumed that it does not apply to people with disabilities. In 2009, World Vision India ran a campaign to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS for people with disabilities. They developed customized programs and awareness for the disease in persons with disabilities increased significantly. An important part of her campaign wanted to work with physicians and caregivers, to change settings, and highlight the prevalence of the disease.
Stevie Kent, senior program manager, sense international.
A poster advertising of a maternal health-text-message campaign in Tanzania. Source: mHealth Tanzania public private partnership
Wazazi Nipendeni is one of the largest mobile health projects in Africa until today. Pregnant women log on to free SMS messages with health advice at the same time their stage of pregnancy, such as when on prenatal care and malaria medications take to get. A mobile phone has households even in the poorest part of society a third Tanzanian, a targeted communication channel to offer pregnant women in rural areas with little access to conventional media. The campaign has reached more than 300,000 women.
Recommended by Dr. Sion Williams, doctor on the Beregi mission hospital, Morogoro, Tanzania.
Poster for the first vaccination week in America in June 2003. source: who
After an outbreak of measles in Venezeula and Colombia 2002 health ministers in the Andean countries (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezeula and Colombia) coordinates planned to prevent future outbreaks. The first vaccination week in the Americas was in 2003 and since then more than 465 million people of all ages have vaccinated against diseases such as measles, rubella, yellow fever, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, and influenza. The media campaigns for the week include endorsements from popular Latin American celebrities.
Recommended by Leticia Linn, WHO Regional Office for America.
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