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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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Gender and HIV: A Training Manual For Southern African Media and Communicators

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This manual is intended to be a flexible training tool that can be used in many different ways, from an intensive one week training course, covering all aspects of gender and HIV/AIDS, to sessions on gender, HIV/AIDS and the media as part of other training programmes, to a modular course run during lunch times over the course of weeks or months.Individuals can also use the manual for self-study, using the handouts and boxes on key information and statistics to build their own understanding and knowledge base as they continue to work in the area of information, education and communications on HIV/AIDS. This "shopping basket" approach should ensure that trainers are able to adapt the material in the manual to suit the specific needs of their participants.

Objectives of the manual:
  • Show and create an understanding of the link between gender and HIV/AIDS;
  • Illustrate, through examples, how the gender dimension of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been the missing story and/or misrepresented by the media and other communicators;
  • Explore how the media and other communicators can contribute towards developing a human rights based approach to covering HIV/AIDS, including the importance of gender equality to countering the pandemic;
  • Highlight the opportunity that HIV/AIDS presents in communicating more with men and women on the importance of building a more caring, compassionate society in which men and women enjoy equal rights and equal access to resources and opportunities.
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Gender Links website.