| Update #53: September 26, 2003 CONTENTS- VISCOM Listserv
 - Featured Website: Multicultural Health Communication Service
 - Featured Website: Soul Beat Africa
 - New HCMN Members
 
 ********************VISCOM Listserv
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 VISCOM list server - is an international listserv open to anyone
 interested in any aspect of visual communication. Topics include film,
 photography, television, new media and all forms of the visual arts in
 terms of production, distribution and scholarly research. The list is
 not moderated. To subscribe simply send an email to
 with a one line message - subscribe viscom
 [your] FIRST NAME LAST NAME. A message will then be sent to you
 about digesting and unsubscribing.
 Check out: http://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/viscomlistserv.html
 ****************************************************Multicultural Health Communication Service
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 http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/
 NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (Multicultural
 Communication) provides information and services to assist health
 professionals to communicate with non English speaking communities.
 NSW Department of Health funds the service, and endorses the multilingual
 health information published on the website. There are over 400 publications
 on health in a wide range of languages and a new publication is produced
 each month. Some multilingual resources produced by other services are also
 listed on this website and there are links to related websites.
 ********************Soul Beat Africa
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 http://www.comminit.com/africa/index.html
 Soul Beat Africa aims to be a space for communicators across Africa to share
 experiences, materials, strategic thinking and events, and to engage in
 discussion and debate. This site is meant for communicators, practitioners, media
 makers, academics, researchers, and others who are using or are interested in
 communication for change in Africa.
 **************************New HCMN Members
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 +++++++++++
 P. Sahhayam
 +++++++++++
 President
 BRIGHT SOCIAL SERVICE SOCIETY
 PO BOX-87, 17/B, SIVAN SOUTH CAR STREET, PALA
 PALAYAMKOTTAI, TIRUNAL VELI.
 Tamilnadu 627002 India
 Phone: 0462577880
 Email:
 Interests: Reproductive Health
 Dear sir/madam, greetings from bsss. It is nice to note that your organization is
 engaged in encouraging and assisting NGO's in taking up mother and child health
 development activities. We are a grass-root level, voluntary organization working
 with 18,000-odd people for 10 years. The target group consists of dalith and other poor
 and uneducated section. Our main focus is awareness building and motivation of the
 people and activating them work for the their own development. Our experience with
 target group has helped us to watch and understand their health behavior in a very close
 perspective ,especially the reproductive health care for mothers and natal care for children
 are virtually ignored which in recent time has raised the level of MMR and IMR and
 incidence of disabilities among children. We propose to organise the woman ,children and the
 men in 31 COLONIES OF POOR DALIT PEOPLE and build up awareness and motivation
 so that they give utmost importance of RCH care and promote the health status of woman
 and children we request you kind consider organstion main brief
 Thanking you
 Yours truly,
 P. Sahhayam
 +++++++++Sheila Sager
 +++++++++
 Student
 Pennsylvania State University
 115 Carnegie Building
 University Park PA 16802 United States
 Phone:
 Email:
 PhD Candidate - Mass Communications, College of Communications
 Graduate Fellow - Institute for Information Policy
 Instructor - Telecommunications
 ++++++++++++Jennifer Warren
 ++++++++++++
 Doctoral Candidate
 Pennsylvania State University
 234 Sparks
 University Park PA 16802 USA
 Phone:
 Email:
 I am in the department of communication arts and sciences at Penn State University.
 My research agenda involves exploring how low income African American
 women utilize the internet to obtain health information and the effect of this
 information on their identity and communication.
 ++++++++++++Judith L. Weiner
 ++++++++++++
 Pennsylvania State University
 234 Sparks Building
 State College PA 16802 USA
 Phone:
 Email:
 Interests: General Health
 ++++++++++++++Faustine Ngarambe
 ++++++++++++++
 Programme Coordinator
 St. Francis Health Care Servies
 P.O.Box 2210 Jinja 00256 Uganda
 Phone: 07
 Interests: Reproductive Health, Adolescent Health, Home based care for AIDS patients
 ++++++++++++++++++Shanpin Fanchiang, Ph.D.
 ++++++++++++++++++
 Chair, Medical Consumer Health Information Pgm
 Rancho Los Amigos National Rehab Center
 7601 East Imperial HWY Downey CA 90242 USA
 Phone: (562) 401-6083
 Email:
 Focusing on patient/family education at Rancho, I have established the Medical
 Consumer Health Information Program (Med-CHIP) with a multi-disciplinary
 committee. The mission of Med-CHIP is
 (1) Reach patients ASAP
 (2) Clinicians can reach and use
 (3) Rancho members can search and find
 ++++++++++Tanim Adhan
 ++++++++++
 Dhar
 Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion
 E- 16 Greater Kailash 1 New Delhi
 Delhi 110048 India
 Phone: 9818130930
 Email: ,hllnr
 Interests: Reproductive Health
 We are working for reproductive and child health all across rural India
 ++++++Ajwath
 ++++++
 Doctor
 Dept. of Gyn. & Obs.
 #62,Old Road,Kattankudy-03. Kattankudy
 Batticalo 00300 Sri Lanka
 Phone: +94652246797
 Email:
 Interests: Reproductive Health, Adolescent Health, Gynecology & Obstetrics
 screening.advice,
 +++++++++++++++Wokoma Inye Oliver
 +++++++++++++++
 Health
 Salvage Action Network Nigeria
 P.O. box 1760,mile one diobu,port harcourt, port har court
 Rivers State 500001 Nigeria
 Phone: 08037084114
 Email:
 Interests: Reproductive Health
 Salvage action network Nigeria (SAN )is a non- governmental organization based
 in Nigeria. We operate in the rural areas of the country and part of our focus is
 creating awareness on health related issues.
 ++++++++++++++Mr Careca Akarue
 ++++++++++++++
 CEO/founder
 Liberty 4 Africa [L4A]
 17 Eburu Street Okumagba Avenue Warri
 Delta State 234 Nigeria
 Phone: 234-80-3708-5522
 Email:
 Interests: Reproductive Health, Adolescent Health, General Health, and
 Infectious Diseases
 The mission of liberty4africa is to organize health programs focus on infections
 diseases prevention and productive. And also carry out research on health and child
 health development. Just open a health resource center and we focus on aids counseling,
 caring for the infected and for testing. this a partnership with ebony clinic & maternity.
 
 +++++++++++++++++
 Mr. Arunachalam
 +++++++++++++++++
 Chief Coordinator
 Resource Centre for Human Affairs
 NGO.A.colony,Indiranagar, SANKARANKOVIL: 627756,
 Tirunelveli Dt.,Tamilnadu, India
 E-mail:
 Phone/Fax:
 Greetings... Our organization is established in 1986, and Registered
 under Tamilnadu Government Societies Registration Act, as Society. Its functioning
 at Sankarankovil. The organization strives for the upliftment of rural health, rural
 employment and the appropriate technology transfer for the rural welfare. To achieve
 this adopts a community based approach and team work as core methodologies
 in its training , research, and undertaking service programs for the implementation
 in the rural areas. OBJECTIVE: The ultimate objective of the organization is to promote
 Education, Health, Economic, Environment and Ecology in the rural areas by conducting
 the appropriate training, research and service activities, especially in the field of
 Reproductive and Child Health, Preventive programs in rural health and Family Welfare.
 My intention is to start a REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR HEALTHCOMMUNICATION along with existing organizations. The center will function,
 compress with; Training, Research, and Production of Health Communication material
 units. 1.Training Unit- Long term training program (one year) a) Health Communication
 Technology, b) Electronic media c) Advertising and Visual publicity on health and
 2. Short term training program; to disadvantaged groups, NGO's, School teachers and other
 interested persons; a) Preparation and production techniques of health communication materials,
 b) Videography c) Graphic arts d) Screen printing e) Concept development techniques and
 creative writing.
 3. Research: Related to this area of Health Communication - program research, and scientific
 studies would be conducted in the research unit.
 4. Production: unit; a) Preparation, production and distribution of health communication
 materials to be developed for Teching, Training and Publicity purposes. b) Technical
 guidance to other agencies.
 Requesting advice to establish over said that Regional Resource Center for Health and
 Communication in our organization.
 Please contact Mr. Arunachalam directly. Back to HCMN Home |