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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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Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities: A Comprehensive Training Course for Community Health

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This web-based publication from Pathfinder International is a trainer's manual for instructing community health workers in the care of clients with HIV, as well as in the training of their caregivers.

This pre-tested and peer-reviewed training curriculum, available in PDF or CD-Rom format, focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary for providing holistic community home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS, transferring knowledge and skills to caregivers and clients, and mobilising communities around HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support. The trainer’s guide uses simple language and emphasises a participatory learning methodology that does not require high literacy levels of participants. It includes comprehensive units that cover topics from HIV basics, communication skills, nursing care, nutrition, positive living, HIV prevention, teaching others, record keeping, community mobilisation and a practicum.

Five advanced units cover the expanded role of the community health worker, family planning, preventing mother-child transmission, antiretroviral therapy, and groups needing special attention.

It is accompanied by an illustrated handbook for community health workers to be used as a field reference. The handbook is entitled Communities Living with HIV/AIDS: A Handbook for Community Health Workers, available at the same website.

Click here to access each chapter individually as a downloadable PDF document.

Click here to download full training manual in PDF format.

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Press release from Pathfinder International on November 27 2006.