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C R Evian

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PubMed1991

Evaluation of an AIDS awareness campaign using city buses in Johannesburg.

The Johannesburg City Health Department embarked on an AIDS awareness campaign using messages placed on the outside of 30 city buses. The selection of the message and the campaign are outlined briefly. An evaluation to assess the overall effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness of using buses as a "vehicle' for exposing the local community to AIDS awareness messages is described. Two cross-sectional studies using telephone interviews were done 2 1/2 and 6 months after the campaign began; 30.2% and 31.5%, respectively, of respondents had seen the message. Accurate recall of the message was generally poor. The overall cost of the campaign was R7 627. Various other aspects of the study are discussed. The study revealed that signs on buses are a cost-effective means of conveying simple and brief health-related messages.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1990

Qualitative evaluation of an AIDS health education poster. A rapid assessment method for health education materials.

In January 1989, the Johannesburg City Health Department developed an AIDS education poster. The poster was adapted from a cartoon in the Sowetan newspaper and was formally evaluated before its final production. As a result of this evaluation further editing and restructuring of the poster proved necessary. The methodology used in the evaluation is outlined, and some of the findings that emerged during the evaluation are discussed, since few formal evaluations of health education material seem to have been documented in South Africa. This study highlights the importance of formative evaluation of printed health educational media by a sample of the target audience before production and distribution.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1989

Preparing oral hydration solution with a cup method.

In a survey of 195 homes in four villages in the Mhala area of Gazankulu, 90% of women caring for under-5 children were able to make an oral hydration solution (OHS). Seventy-five per cent of these women indicated that they would use an OHS as first-line management for diarrhoea. Seventy-nine per cent (139) of these solutions were prepared using a cup method and 13% (23) using a litre-bottle method. A biochemically ideal sodium concentration was found in 31% (43) of solutions made using the cup method and in 17% (5) of those made using the litre method. The solutions are further analysed. The appropriateness of the cup and litre measures for home-made OHS in these circumstances is studied and discussed. The cup method is considered to have advantages because utensils and ingredients for this method are more readily available in these rural homes. Dual messages given to this community may be responsible for the apparent confusion about making OHS, and it is advocated that health education about OHS should where possible be standardised.

Cooking and Eating Utensils↗