Pillsbury Barbara, Mayer Doe
The Synergy Project, Social & Scientific Systems Inc., Washington, DC, USA.
J Health Commun. 2005 Jun;10(4):361-71. doi: 10.1080/10810730590950075.
Women's nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have significant comparative advantage for addressing sexual and reproductive health challenges facing women and families. This article describes an initiative to assist women's NGOs in developing greater skills using media and information communication technology for communicating women's health messages. Participating women's groups in Africa undertook innovative media projects--radio broadcasts on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and family planning, an antiviolence campaign, media campaigns on avoiding teen pregnancy--and designed websites, established Internet cafés, and downloaded health information from the Internet. Lessons learned offer guidance for collaboration with women's NGOs everywhere to strengthen communication for addressing critical sexual and reproductive health issues.
妇女非政府组织在应对妇女和家庭面临的性与生殖健康挑战方面具有显著的比较优势。本文描述了一项倡议，旨在帮助妇女非政府组织提升利用媒体和信息通信技术传播妇女健康信息的能力。非洲参与其中的妇女团体开展了创新媒体项目——关于人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）和计划生育的广播节目、一场反暴力运动、避免青少年怀孕的媒体宣传活动——并设计网站、开设网吧以及从互联网上下载健康信息。所汲取的经验教训为与各地妇女非政府组织合作提供了指导，以加强针对关键的性与生殖健康问题的宣传。
