The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project has curated a collection of SBC materials and tools developed by its local project teams and used across its country programs to support HIV prevention, care, and treatment as well as COVID-19-related programming.
Source: HIV and COVID-19 Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Repository of Resources
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As part of the fight against COVID-19, Breakthrough ACTION Côte d’Ivoire has developed spots in French and four local languages to raise awareness.
The four themes that are covered are:
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A large international study has confirmed the findings of a previous U.S. study that linked COVID-19 vaccination with an average increase in menstrual cycle length of less than one day. The increase was not associated with any change in the number of days of menses (days of bleeding).
Source: Study confirms link between COVID-19 vaccination and temporary increase in menstrual cycle length
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The ‘Follow Who Know Road’ television spots are one-minute videos explaining why vaccination against COVID-19 is essential.
Sources:
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This card is used to refer clients to get vaccinated at the healthcare facility closest to them.
Source: Peer Referral Cards
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Breakthrough ACTION worked with the Kenyan Division of the National Malaria Programme to develop this spot that promotes malaria prevention, testing, and treatment.
The spot also reassures audiences that it is safe to go to the health facility during the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to safety precautions put in place. The spot has been broadcast regularly on four of the leading local TV stations in Kenya starting in January 2021.
Source: Malaria and COVID-19 Television Spot – Kenya
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In Bangladesh, mental health challenges remain unmet due to a lack of awareness, a shortage of mental health professionals and various facilities. To address the widening gap between mental health needs and the availability of mental health care professionals, Dr. Helal Uddin Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Child Adolescent and Family Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health worked with Breakthrough ACTION to develop a standard operating procedure for mental health and psychological support call centers. In March 2022, in consultation with the Non-Communicable Disease Control and the National Institute of Mental Health, Breakthrough ACTION organized training sessions on the mental health gap action program and the standard operating procedure, to equip doctors and counselors with mental health counseling, screening, and management skills, ensuring improved quality of mental health services that are affordable and accessible to people.
Source: Improving Mental Health Services in Bangladesh Through the Mental Health Gap Action Plan
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The Big Idea of the Week delves deeper into a specific COVID-related topic. Each week, Big Idea tackles a specific area of COVID-19 and provides important information, guidelines, and messages for the public.
Breakthrough ACTION, led by Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), in partnership with the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) National COVID-19 Emergency Response Center (NACOVERC), creates these messages. They are disseminated on the Ministry website and via the Ministry of Information and Communication’s Facebook page.
Source: Sierra Leone COVID-19 Big Idea of the Week Campaign
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Three videos were developed to be used as online tutorials for using the Community Engagement Kits developed by Breakthrough ACTION Indonesia.
The videos is intended for health workers, cadres, volunteers, elderly caregivers and other change agents. They are intended to help strengthen their Interpersonal Communication skills (IPC) by using the community engagement kits (Flip Chart and cue cards) for COVID-19 Vaccination promotion and education. The videos combine live action footage, animation, graphics, text, and audio to create a multi-sensory learning experience.
All the content and messages are the standard messages as approved by the government of Indonesia, and have been pre-tested with the intended audiences/users. Subtitles are included to help with comprehension of the dialogue especially for people with some disabilities.
Details:
Video one is an introduction to how to use CE Kits (flip chart and cue cards) as well as an explanation regarding the structure of each part.
Video two teaches skills on interpersonal communication such as open questions, delivery key messages, and how to use probing to better understand the audience’s concerns.
Video three explains examples of ice breakers that can help people to get through difficulties in starting a session or discussion on a specific topic.
Source: Video Tutorial for using community engagement kits on COVID-19 Vaccination
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Social Media campaign
Breakthrough ACTION/JHU conducted social media activities in support of the national SIAP (Semangat Dapat Vaksinasi Lengkap (READY – To Complete the Dose ) campaign targeting the younger population using social media. The campaign motivates the audience to increase trust in COVID-19 vaccination safety and effectiveness, with emphasizing messages on the personal risk and collective health consequences if not vaccinated.
The activities included:
Source: Social Media Campaign for COVID-19 Vaccination
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