Creating HIV/AIDS Awareness through Localized Communication for Health Development in South Africa

Okorie, Nelson; Bigala, Paul

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“…Currently, South Africa has more than 200 community stations that broadcast in a number of languages with content as diverse as the country itself (Okorie & Bigala, 2016). Nkopane (2014, p. 68) observed that in 2012, there were 218 licensed community radio stations and they were to be found in almost every district municipality of the country.…”

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“…Radio programming is produced in the languages of Xhosa, South Sotho, English, and Afrikaans. Importantly, the content of community radio programmes originates from the local community people; it is community specific and situation relevant (Okorie & Bigala, 2016).…”

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“…Radio is a powerful tool for cultural transmission; its waves can be received in almost any geographical space because of its pervasive abilities (Okorie & Bigala, 2016;Okorie & Bwala, 2017;Okorie & Saluwu, 2017). The, media, thus serve as the primary means of access to culture and other forms of creative expression.…”

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Community Radio, Family and Psychological Support for Sexual Harassment Issues: A Study of Yoruba Usage

Oduaran,

Okorie

2018

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Sexual harassment is a recurrent issue in any modern society. The increasing cases of sexual harassment against women have become a menace in Nigeria. This study sought to determine the potential place of Yoruba as a form of localized communication in promoting psychological support on issues of sexual harassment against women. The study employed development media theory and considered Hebron FM as an example. Survey method was employed for the study and instrument of data collection was questionnaire. A sample size of 150 respondents was selected for the study. The results showed that many of the respondents believed that the use of Yoruba in broadcasting, aids socio-cultural development in Ota in Nigeria. Also, the study indicated that 87 per cent of the respondents say use of Yoruba promotes psychological support on sexual harassment issues against women.

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Community Radio, Family and Psychological Support for Sexual Harassment Issues: A Study of Yoruba Usage

Oduaran,

Okorie

2018

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“…In essence, the new media and interpersonal networks serve as potent information sources for health communication interventions[44]. It is this type of thinking that made[45] to assert the media and interpersonal networks have been recognized and acknowledged as health communication channels for creating awareness of diseases in developing countries[46].Interestingly, this result indicates that a significant number of respondents had sufficient knowledge about HIV/HBV co-infection. Form the findings, the mean score, if after combining all the responses of the respondents' falls between 0 and 2.4, then on the average, the knowledge of residents of Lagos Nigeria on HBV/HIV co-infection is insignificant.…”

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Information Use and Knowledge of HIV/Hepatitis B Co-Infection in Lagos, Nigeria

Adesina¹,

Oyero²,

Okorie³

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Health Communication and Hepatitis Health Management: A Study on the Awareness and Behavioural Practices in Nigeria

Ben-Enukora

Amodu

Okorie

2019

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Hepatitis has become a leading cause of death across the globe. Social lifestyle practices and behaviours that predispose individuals to contracting the disease have been identified as factors that constitute huge challenge towards the disease prevention. Against this backdrop, this study examined the residents’ source of information on hepatitis disease, knowledge of the high-risk behaviours that could expose people to hepatitis infection and the effects of hepatitis awareness on current behavioural practices of the study population. The study adopted the survey design and multi-stage sampling procedure was employed. The findings revealed that the broadcast media was identified as the major source of information on hepatitis disease/prevention. Respondents’ knowledge of high-risk behaviours that stimulate hepatitis infection was very low. Knowledge of hepatitis preventive measures was critically low. More so, awareness of hepatitis disease did not influence the majority of the residents to adopt preventive practices aimed at reducing the incidence of hepatitis infection. In view of these findings, the study recommends among others that information on hepatitis prevention should be more ‘behaviour-centred’ and interpersonal communication channels such as opinion leaders, religious leaders, community development officers and community-based health workers could be identified and recruited for hepatitis intervention.

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Creating HIV/AIDS Awareness through Localized Communication for Health Development in South Africa

Cited by 8 publications

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Community Radio, Family and Psychological Support for Sexual Harassment Issues: A Study of Yoruba Usage

Community Radio, Family and Psychological Support for Sexual Harassment Issues: A Study of Yoruba Usage

Information Use and Knowledge of HIV/Hepatitis B Co-Infection in Lagos, Nigeria

Health Communication and Hepatitis Health Management: A Study on the Awareness and Behavioural Practices in Nigeria

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