Information Distribution

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One of the principles underlying the activities of the health department is promoting more equitable access to information, skills and the technology needed for development in general and for health in particular. ACI promotes the wider circulation of information on health through:

  • Assistance in creating and managing documentation and resource centers
  • Design, production, dubbing and distribution of films in French, English and national languages
  • Design, production and distribution of documents and IEC (Information, Education and Communication) materials
  • Broad distribution and sale of subsidized learning materials
  • Design of resource documents (e.g. Directories of organizations working in the response to HIV, in Adolescent Reproductive Health, etc.)
  • Strengthening documentation systems and information exchange
  • Transforming the results of research into user-friendly documents
  • Development and management of e-forums for electronic information sharing and discussion

ACI Information and Resource Center

Created in 1993, ACI’s Information and Resource Center houses a rich and varied database of films and documents on HIV and Development and Reproductive Health issues. The Center also provides information and documentation on health and development to individuals and resource institutions. The Center is a founding member of the Senegalese and Pan African Network of HIV and AIDS Documentation Centers.
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ACI is pleased to announce the publication of a French language Directory of organizations and individuals working in social justice and conflict transformation in Francophone Africa. This directory was produced with funding from USAID and can be downloaded here (36 Mb).

 

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ACI’s Health Department regularly publishes a two page newsletter in French to share ACI’s innovative experiences. The first newsletter presented multisectoral, integrated management (GIM) of the response to HIV and AIDS on the Regional level in Senegal.  To read the first newsletter,  click here (2,8 Mb). The second newsletter published in April 2010, tells the story of ACI's role in helping UNDP to develop its innovative "HIV and Development" training model in the early nineties and the ongoing value of this approach. Click here (2,2 Mb) to read the second newsletter. The third newsletter that came out in July 2010 describes efforts begun in 2007 to develop a true continuum of care and support for PLWHA. Click here (1,2 Mb) to learn more about the development of the continuum in the regional level.

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"It has become easier for us to answer questions people ask us during our awareness raising sessions thanks to the the quality of the trainers and the training we received during our ACI Poles of Excellence sessions."
CC/DGR (Ginaaw Rails, Dakar)

"With ACI we learned that education needs to be based on dialogue, be relevant, increase the competence of the target group and give them responsability; it needs to give them the power to protect themselves and protect others; we understand that it is not simply a question of providing information, distibuting condoms and giving talks; you need to place the target popultion at the center of your activities, understand the obstacles to behavior change they face, and help remove those obstacles."
APSNS (Ziguinchor)