This video production/story is about women and female gentital mutilation (FGM). The video narrative is an amalgamation of many women's stories. The story is created under the notion that "it takes a village to tell a woman's story; it takes a village for a woman's voice to be heard." The work is part of a wider project entitled "Dear Mother" created by Daapo Reo.
Useful Resources
Spoken Word Performance on Female Gential Mutilation (FGM)
Ali A: afro’disiatic Xpressions, 2015
Stand Up Against Poverty Toolkit
Oxfam Global Month of Action, 14 September-17 October 2006
This Oxfam 'toolkit' suggests ways to participate in the 'Global Month of Action.' Oxfam describes the goals of poverty reduction and ways to contribute to the global efforts to reduce poverty.
STAR: Special Terms for African Researchers
Free and reduced-rate online journal access
STAR is a scheme which makes scholarly publications more widely available to those who have difficulty affording them. It is aimed at Individual academics in sub-Saharan Africa who would like to gain access to cutting-edge research in a wide variety of subject areas. Benefits include FREE access to over 300 Taylor & Francis Group journals online, including all physical science and technology titles, reduced rate personal print subscriptions to over 100 Taylor & Francis journals, covering subjects from archaeology to women's studies, and ongoing special offers. If you register at the address above, you’ll also receive regular news updates on the benefits available.
STAR: supporting authors in emerging regions to access journals for free
Taylor and Francis, 2019
Special Terms for Authors and Researchers (STAR) is a Taylor and Francis initiative developed to provide authors and researchers in emerging regions with free access to articles from their leading international and regional journals across subject areas. Those in eligible countries can register for one voucher, per person, per year. Free access will expire after the fiftieth article or twelve months after registration. It is possible to request more accesses after the fiftieth article
Still Standing and War on Women
IRIN: March 2014
IRIN, the UN's service for humanitarian news and analysis, has produced two powerful new films dealing with sexual violence. "Still Standing" is the story of a young rape survivor in Kenya, Ziborah Iala, and her seemingly endless quest for justice and healing. "War on Women" addresses "sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with gripping testimonies from both survivors and perpetrators and insight from analysts and civil society activists. Impunity helps drive the horrific levels of sexual violence in DRC: it is more than a "weapon of war", and is not confined to the battlefield."
Strategic Communication in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
This book promotes the use of strategic communication to fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Focusing on strategic communication for positive and measurable behaviour change, the authors elaborate on a wide range of issues including: the importance of advocacy and community mobilization; comprehensive approaches to prevention and the use of communication in reducing stigma; communication programmes for a wide range of specific groups including intravenous drug users and refugees; the role of communication in support of clinical and social services; the care and support of vulnerable children; and selected communication approaches such as entertainment-education, telephone hotlines and digital communication.
Strengthening health systems to respond to women subjected to intimate partner violence or sexual violence: A manual for health managers
World Health Organization, WHO, Geneva, 2017
This manual is intended for health managers at all levels of the health systems. It is based on World Health Organization (WHO) 2013 guidelines for responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women. The manual primarily addresses public sector health services, but is also relevant for health services in the private sector, including services provided by nongovernmental organizations. It is intended for policy-makers, health services managers at hospital or health facility level who have responsibility for facility level planning as well as day-to-day coordination and management of services, and offers easy steps, practical tips and job aids to help plan and manage services.
Structured discussion on HIV/AIDS and Mobile Populations in Southern Africa
The overall aims of this discussion are to share our experiences and raise awareness about the issues of mobile populations and HIV/AIDS, particularly in the Southern African region. The discussion will explore the specific factors that increase HIV/AIDS vulnerability for mobile populations as well as examine how HIV/AIDS affects migration patterns. It will also focus on the particular challenges raised by dwindling human resources in the healthcare sector and its links to HIV/AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30827
Supply Initiative introduces text-only website
The Supply Initiative has introduced a "text-only" version of its web site, available at http://www.rhsupplies.org/textonly/index.html. This simple low-technology web site is easy to print out and only needs a fraction of the time to load.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30068
SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 4: Using research evidence to clarify a problem
Lavis JN, Wilson MG, Oxman AD, Lewin S and Fretheim A: Health Research Policy and Systems 7(Suppl 1), 16 December 2009
Debates and struggles over how to define a problem are a critically important part of the policymaking process. The outcome of these debates and struggles will influence whether and, in part, how policymakers take action to address a problem. Efforts at problem clarification that are informed by an appreciation of concurrent developments are more likely to generate actions. These concurrent developments can relate to policy and programme options (e.g. the publication of a report demonstrating the effectiveness of a particular option) or to political events (e.g. the appointment of a new Minister of Health with a personal interest in a particular issue). This article suggests questions that can be used to guide those involved in identifying a problem and characterising its features: What is the problem? How did the problem come to attention and has this process influenced the prospect of it being addressed? What indicators can be used, or collected, to establish the magnitude of the problem and to measure progress in addressing it? How can the problem be framed (or described) in a way that will motivate different groups?