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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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Excellence in Reporting on HIV/AIDS

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The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) is collaborating with The Indian Express Group to honour Indian journalists who demonstrate excellence in HIV/AIDS reporting. Offered as part of the Ramnath Goenka Foundation annual awards, the two awards, one each from the English and Marathi press, will be given to an author of an article or series in a newspaper or magazine that makes an exceptional contribution to public awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS issues. The report/series of reports must be a substantive work that covers a story comprehensively and raises public consciousness and awareness about HIV/AIDS issues.
The winning article or series in a newspaper or magazine will be judged by the following criteria:

  • making an exceptional contribution to public awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS issues;
  • being a substantive work that covers a story comprehensively and raises public consciousness and awareness about HIV/AIDS issues;
  • demonstrating general excellence, quality of writing, and coverage that most accurately, objectively, and sensitively portrays HIV/AIDS and leads to a greater awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS issues; and
  • using appropriate language, and taking into consideration gender sensitivity, and ethical and human rights concerns.

Articles must have been written between April 1 2005 and April 30 2006. Award winners will attend the three-week Leadership in Strategic Health Communication Workshop at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/ Centre for Communication Programs in Baltimore, USA in June 2007.

Click here for more information about the awards.

Application Info
Nominees for the awards will be proposed and selected by a national panel of advisors. The panel will also consider entries sent from media houses, newsrooms or individual reporters. Entry forms along with two reprints or originals of each article/ programme showing the publication date must be submitted with every entry. A sponsoring letter of nomination must be signed by someone other than the nominee, employed by the same organisation, and included with the entry. Entry forms should be completed and secured to the front of the entry.

Click here for more information about how to apply.

Click here to download the application form in PDF format.
Source

Email from Kim Martin to The Communication Initiative, April 24 2006.