I thought you would be interested in seeing a report from PMC-Ethiopia regarding a recently-completed workshop with Muslim leaders from the Afar region on the subject of FGM.
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I thought you would be interested in seeing a report from PMC-Ethiopia regarding a recently-completed workshop with Muslim leaders from the Afar region on the subject of FGM. There is an excellent proclamation, starting on page 16 of the report, as well as summaries of the comments of the religious leaders. One of the most outspoken people at the workshop, who called for ending the practice of FGM, was the President of the Supreme Sharia Court of Afar region.

Ethiopia FGM Workshop for Religious Leaders (Word doc., 92 KB)

Best wishes,
Bill

Population Bulletin. 2007 June

The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continue to fascinate and concern the rest of the world. With two-thirds of the world’s known petroleum reserves, the region’s economic and political importance far outweighs its population size. It has the world’s second-fastest growing population, after sub-Saharan Africa.

Its demographic trends-especially the rapidly growing youth population-are complicating the region’s capacity to adapt to social change, economic strains, and sometimes wrenching political transformations.

For full article, download:

Population MENA Region by PRB

PMC Vice President for International Programs Kriss Barker has a feature article in the Global Health Council’s latest AIDSLink (Issue 104, 1 July, 2007).

AIDSLINK, Issue 104 | July 1 2007
Written by Kriss Barker, Vice President, International Programs Population Media Center

Anguach and Demlew are the main characters in an Ethiopian serial drama. They are a loving young couple with a bright future. But Demlew’s mother, who doesn’t like Anguach, begins to meddle and pushes a neighbor to seduce her son. He succumbs, sleeps with the neighbor, and is infected with HIV. Anguach is devastated, but forgives him, and cares for him until he dies. Although terrified that she might be HIV positive, Anguach gets tested and finds out that she is negative. Anguach eventually marries again (this time, a man without a meddling mother!) and lives happily ever after. Touching story – but did it have any impact?

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – On August 1, 2007, thirty religious leaders from the Afar region, and representatives from the Islamic Affairs Bureau and the Women’s Affairs Bureau created and signed a declaration to end the practice of female circumcision (also called female genital mutilation or FGM). The declaration was one of the end results of a workshop Population Media Center (PMC) held on July 31st and August 1st to discuss the issue of female circumcision and what religious leaders can do to help eradicate the practice.
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Kano, Nigeria – On July 31, 2007 Population Media Center (PMC) will launch its second social content radio serial drama in Nigeria. Through the use of character role-models, the drama aims to enhance knowledge and utilization of existing health services, provide important information about reproductive health and general health issues, encourage use of family planning, promote delaying marriage and childbearing until adulthood, promote small family norms, provide information about HIV transmission, and motivate people to take actions to improve their health and the health of their families. PMC will air 234 episodes over two years.

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There is an article about Population Media Center’s work in Ethiopia on the Communication Initiative website.

For full article, visit:

http://www.comminit.com/evaluations/id2007/impactdata-79.html.

The link in the email below will take you to the Global Health Council’s newsletter for communications professionals. There is a story there about PMC’s work in Sudan. There is a link in the story to a detailed report on the Sudan project. I have pasted the Global Health Council newsletter’s section on Sudan below the following email.

Best wishes,

Bill

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From: globalhealthcommunicators-bounces@listserve.com [mailto:globalhealthcommunicators-bounces@listserve.com] On Behalf Of Laura Barnitz
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:46 AM
To: globalhealthcommunicators@listserve.com
Subject: [GlobalHealthCommunicators] 1st Global Health CommunicatorsNewsletter is Out!

Hello Everyone,

I invite you to view our working group’s first newsletter for communications professionals working in global health. We focused on child health topics in this first issue of The Global Messenger, which you will find at http://www.globalhealth.org/communicators/. I’d like to thank contributers’ Liz Creel from the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival, Katie Elmore from Population Media Center and Marina Gavrioushkina from the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. Also, we are planning to host live events for our working group. There is a forum in the works, and I’ll keep you posted once dates and speakers are confirmed.

Oh, yes. One more reminder. The 34th Annual International Conference on Global Health is coming up at the end of May. In addition to informative sessions for implementers and advocates, we have sessions that will be of particular interest to communicators—including the Communicators Workshop, the Media Luncheon, and our Film Series Premier. We will have some press room time slots for Council members who wish to hold press conferences during the week as well. I’ll send more information to you on that April 9th.

Talk to you soon,

Laura Barnitz
Director of Policy Communications
Global Health Council
1111 19th St., NW, Ste. 1120
Washington, DC 20036

202-833-5900, x3204
Fax: 202-833-0075

www.globalhealth.org

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Save the Children Norway, with funds from the Norwegian government, has announced that it will provide Population Media Center (PMC) with $2.4 million for a four-year, social content radio serial drama project in Ethiopia. The drama will be created using the Sabido methodology, a highly effective entertainment education technique that PMC has implemented in thirteen countries worldwide. The serial drama will address issues relating to reproductive health.

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All Press Inquiries, please contact:

Katie Elmore
Development and Communications Manager
elmore@populationmedia.org
802-985-8156 ext. 205