Behavior Change Communication for the Prevention and Treatment of STDs: Community and Clinic-based Communication Approaches for STD Programs (Family Health International). This handbook provides suggestions and examples for promoting education and skills training, including involving community in the BCC program, using stages of behavior change to develop appropriate BCC messages, assessing STD beliefs, concerns and practices, and training health workers in the communication aspects of the prevention and management of STDs.
Assessment and Monitoring of Behavior Change Communication Interventions: Reviewing the Effectiveness of BCC Interventions (Family Health International). This is a handbook to help planners and implementers look at the effectiveness of their BCC interventions. Implementers can use the handbook to help them monitor and to identify strengths and potential weaknesses of an ongoing intervention. The handbook can also be used as a planning tool because it highlights important points for the design and development of effective BCC programming.
Behavior Change Through Mass Communication: Using Mass Media for AIDS Prevention (Family Health International). This handbook provides a basic understanding of how to use mass media for HIV/AIDS prevention, including guidance on choosing media to reach different audiences and achieve specific objectives. It contains chapters on writing radio and television scripts, getting articles printed, and publicizing projects.
How to Create an Effective Communication Project Using the AIDSCAP Strategy to Develop Successful Behavior Change Interventions (Family Health International). This handbook provides a basic, yet comprehensive framework for the behavior change communication process combined with step-by-step guidance for creating an effective project, making it an important new tool for communication training. This handbook will guide you through the development of behavior change communication projects using a strategy developed by FHI.
How to Conduct Effective Pretests: Ensuring Meaningful BCC Messages and Materials (Family Health International). This handbook's main objective is to help field level planners and implementers conduct simple, effective pretests of BCC materials for HIV/AIDS prevention. It will help you understand what pretesting is and why it is important, learn different methods of pretesting, determine whether materials are easily readable, design and conduct simple, effective testing surveys, and analyze and use pretest information to improve materials.
