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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. 

Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Using ART Grain Sack Charts: A Discussion Guide for Community Liaison Volunteers

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This 20-page discussion guide is meant to be used by Community Liaison Volunteers (CLVs) in conjunction with ART (anti-retroviral therapy) grain sack charts, a set of charts produced to encourage discussion around various thematic areas of concern for people living with HIV, including nutrition, prevention for positives, ART adherence, prevention of mother-to-child infection, and stigma. Produced by Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC) and Health Communication Partnership (HCP) of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs (JHUCCP), with financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the discussion guide is designed to help CLVs facilitate small group discussions with community members to increase awareness of and the importance of adherence. For each grain sack chart, there is a set of Learning Objectives and Group Discussion Questions, as well as suggestions for take-home messages.

The guide contains discussion suggestions based on the following twelve charts:
  • Chart 1: What is a good diet? What is a bad diet?
  • Chart 2: Which foods keep you healthy?
  • Chart 3: It takes three stones to cook
  • Chart 4: I take my ARTs...
  • Chart 5: Choices for safer lifestyles
  • Chart 6: The price of choosing unsafe lifestyles
  • Chart 7: What is stigma and discrimination?
  • Chart 8: Your body before and after HIV
  • Chart 9: When does a person start ARVs?
  • Chart 10: The role of CLVs
  • Chart 11: When can HIV be passed from mother to child?
  • Chart 12: Caring for HIV positive children
Languages

English

Number of Pages

20

Source

JHUCCP website on August 2 2010.