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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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Thailand Launches National Avian Influenza Awareness, Prevention Campaign In Schools

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On Tuesday October 10 2006, Thailand’s Ministry of Education (MOE) launched a national campaign to teach school children the behaviours they need to practice to stop the spread of the avian influenza virus. According to the article, the campaign is a collaboration between the MOE, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and the Government of Japan, and will cover 40,000 elementary and secondary schools across Thailand.

The campaign will include the distribution of two million posters and two million pamphlets to promote frequent hand washing, rapid reporting of sick and dead poultry as well as other key behaviours to prevent the spread of bird flu. Teachers will be given a newly developed curriculum along with 300,000 bars of soap to help to educate children about avian flu.

According to the article, seventeen people (including eleven children) have died of avian influenza in Thailand since 2004. It is hoped that the campaign will help to stop the virus from spreading from poultry to humans by educating children and their families about how to protect themselves from avian flu.

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Presszoom, October 10 2006.