Blog Archives: May

May 9, 2012-

USAID’s global project, PREVENT has worked with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) on public affairs. April 17 – 20, 2012 we conducted a workshop for nine field epidemiologists and health communication officials from Angola and Mozambique. Workshop was held in Maputo.

First day all the workshop group from PREVENT is together in the same place – Fernando Garcia, David Zucker, Efua Orleans-Lindsay and Dee Bennett. We meet early to edit, re-order, rewrite, and translate presentation. This continued throughout the day and finalizedthe presentation’s materials, slides, and videos. More...

May 9, 2012-

Anton Schneider, Regional BCC Advisor for PREVENT, travelled to Sabah, Malaysia April 15-16 to visit the Sabah Wildlife Department in order to assist them in characterizing the human-wildlife interface and identify potentially risky behaviors that could allow transmission of zoonotic diseases from wildlife to people.

My first trip to Sabah since vacationing there 15 years before, I found Sabah to be just as beautiful as I remembered it. But unlike my vacation visit in 1997, this time I planned to meet with the Sabah Wildlife Department in the hopes we might assist them in characterizing the human-wildlife interface and identify potentially risky behaviors that could allow transmission of zoonotic diseases from wildlife to people.  More...

May 9, 2012-

Cecile Lantican, MID-BCC Country Coordinator Lao PDR, facilitated an advocacy training workshop May 2 and 3 for 22 government staff members from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MOAF) in Vientiane, Lao PDR.

Advocacy is a nuanced communication strategy and an important first step in creating behavior change among communities and organizations. Advocacy is well-developed and expertly executed in many countries and cultures, especially in the West. There are some cultures where it is not considered appropriate to advocate for a cause or an issue…and some governments look less kindly on non-governmental advocacy activities. More...