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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Malaria Control - Ghana

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The objectives of this programme were to determine the impact of health sector reform on a malaria vertical disease control programme, and to determine if malaria control could be successfully integrated into district health plans. Six districts participated in the programme, and each district approached these objectives according to their own needs and resources.
Communication Strategies

Strategies utilized by the different districts of Ghana include, decentralisation of service delivery, community based health education, bringing services closer to the community, reduction of polypharmacy, increasing cost-effectiveness of malaria treatment and quality of service delivery, studying the interaction between prescriber performance and disease outcome, monitoring impact of prompt diagnosis and - treatment in absenteeism of primary schoolchildren.
Development Issues

Health, malaria control, education, children
Key Points

The project was completed late in 1997, a major finding (among others) of the project is that research into the quality of client prescriber and client dispenser communication found that training of prescribers in interpersonal and communication skills has a positive impact on their practice in terms of information provision to clients
Partners



Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Health Sector Reform Research Work Programme, Ghana Ministry of Health, District health centres

Sources

Information obtained at the Shared Project Information Database, Project Summary

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 03/05/2006 - 12:00 Permalink

Iwanted to Know how malaria started in Ghana!! But thanks any way!!