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BA Zambia Implementation Package: Adolescent Wellness Days: A Toolkit for Implementors

Source: Breakthrough ACTION/Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs

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2020

This package is part of a set of implementation packages designed by the Breakthrough ACTION Zambia team.

Ishibeni Utuntu, or Adolescent Wellness Days, is an integrated package designed to address the following problems:

  • Adolescents want to avoid HIV and unintended pregnancy but do not use condoms
  • Adolescents want to avoid unintended pregnancy but do not use modern contraceptives
  • Adolescents who engage in risky sex do not get screened and tested regularly for HIV
  • Adolescents want to prevent malaria but do not sleep under insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) every night

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Annie Anopheles Malaria Cartoons

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communicaiton Programs

Year of Publication:

2009

The “Annie Anopheles” cartoon short illustrates the importance of welcoming indoor residual spray teams (IRS) into communities to help prevent and control malaria (Zambia).

The carton is part of an animated film series designed to change malaria related prevention and treatment behaviors. Each cartoon covers a different malaria related behavior: one on the importance of sleeping under long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) to prevent malaria, one on intermittent presumptive treatment (IPT) for malaria in pregnancy, and one on indoor resudual spraying (IRS).

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