PMC featured on Mother Nature Network.
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs
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When it comes to the American soap opera, few people will tell you that they’re actually inspired by anything they see in the plotlines or characters. It’s more the ridiculous on-screen drama that sucks people in — offering themes or stories that drag on, episode after episode in classic cliffhanger fashion.

But what if you could weave in messages of sustainability, gender equality, or issues regarding HIV and AIDS to evoke social change? What if a soap opera really did inspire?

That’s the idea behind the Population Media Center’s “entertainment education” serial dramas for audiences in developing areas of the world. The nonprofit airs soap operas on both radio and television to teach listeners and viewers important lessons relating to everything from family planning to reproductive health to environmental stewardship.
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PMC is featured this month on the Healthcare Technology News blog.

Healthcare Technology News reports on relevant events and examines their broader strategic context with a focus on healthcare technology, revenue cycle management, value, policy, economics and health care reform.

From The National
http://www.thenational.com.pg/?q=node/12113

The United Nations in Papua New Guinea in cooperation with the Population Media Centre (PMC) has entered a two-year partnership programme with Colgate-Palmolive PNG on promoting the achievement of the millennium development goals (MDG) through the MDG radio drama campaign which will be launched next year.

Colgate came in as the key corporate sponsor of with the donation of K100,000 for two social change radio serial dramas to be developed for public broadcast in PNG in Tok Pisin and English by US-based PMC.
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August 24, 2010

Contact: Katie Elmore
Director of Communications
Tel: 802-985-8156 ext. 205
elmore@populationmedia.org

Colgate-Palmolive Sponsors UN MDGs Radio Drama Campaign in Papua New Guinea

Port Moresby, PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The United Nations in Papua New Guinea in cooperation with the Population Media Center (PMC) is pleased to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate-Palmolive has signed on as a private sector sponsor of two social change radio serial dramas to be developed for public broadcast in Papua New Guinea in Pidgin and English.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 19, 2010

Contact: Katie Elmore
Director of Communications
Tel: 802-985-8156 ext. 205
elmore@populationmedia.org

New Report on Population Asks Americans to Start Talking About What Really Matters

Shelburne, VT (19. August 2010) – When a man and a woman have unprotected sex, babies are quite often the result. Sexual decisions not only impact the lives of those involved, but impact the planet we all share. Currently the world’s population is growing by 80 million people every year. On a planet with finite resources this means we either take a rational approach to addressing population issues, or we ignore simple mathematics and pay the unimaginably horrific consequences. Sound bleak? Well it is. Which is why everyone needs to talk about it.
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PMC’s President, Bill Ryerson, wrote a report for the Post Carbon Reader. Below is an excerpt from the report and a brief video statement by Bill Ryerson.

To download the full report, visit:
http://www.postcarbon.org/Reader/PCReader-Ryerson-Population.pdf

POPULATION: The Multiplier of Everything Else

When it comes to controversial issues, population is in a class by itself.

Advocates and activists working to reduce global population growth and size are attacked by the Left for supposedly ignoring human-rights issues, glossing over Western overconsumption, or even seeking to reduce the number of people of color. They are attacked by the Right for supposedly favoring widespread abortion, promoting promiscuity via sex education, or wanting to harm economic growth. Others think the problem has been solved, or believe that the real problem is that we have a shortage of people (the so-called “birth dearth”). Still others think the population problem will solve itself, or that technological innovations will make our numbers irrelevant.
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The following article appeared on the VOV News website and talks about PMC’s program in Vietnam, Khat Vong Song (“The Desire for Life”)
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HIV/AIDS radio drama brings good social impact
http://english.vovnews.vn

A ceremony to mark the end of the two-year serial radio project ‘Desire for life’ was held at Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) headquarters on August 16.

The ceremony was co-organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Danish Government (DANIDA) and VOV.
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Alternet conducted an interview with Bill Ryerson regarding the work of Population Media Center.
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AlterNet / By Daniela Perdomo

Strange But True: How Soap Operas Might Save Us From Overpopulation
Earth reached its human capacity in the 1980s. Our planet is in crisis, and Bill Ryerson is using media to change behaviors that contribute to global overpopulation.

June 8, 2010

Global warming, food and water crises, even international conflict — you can trace all these societal and environmental problems to overpopulation. Experts believe that Earth reached its population capacity in the 1980s, meaning we now consume natural resources at a rate much higher than they can be replenished. And of course, as we take away natural resources, we’re adding a slew of unnatural, toxic matter into the mix that brings about a host of other problems.
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Below is a chapter on PMC’s program in the Philippines, Sa Pagsikat Ng Araw, that appeared in the book The Interrelationship of Business and Communication. The Participatory Assessment of was written by Arvind Singhal, Elizabeth Rattine-Flaherty and Molly A. Mayer.

Can Communication Be Socially Responsible & Commercially Viable? (PDF, 822 KB)

Below is an article from Investigacion y Desarrollo featuring a participatory assessment of PMC’s program in Sudan, Ahreat Al Amal. The participatory assessment was written by Karen Greiner, Arvind Singhal and Sarah Hurlburt.

With an antenna we can stop the practice of female genital cutting (PDF, 1.45 MB)