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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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Food safety education as an effective strategy to reduce diarrhoeal morbidities in children less than two years of age

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Mini, S., G. Renu, et al. (2006). "Food safety education as an effective strategy to reduce diarrhoeal morbidities in children less than two years of age." Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics 43(1): 22-31.

DESIGN: Food safety education was imparted to mothers of children 6-24 months (Group 1, n=30) over a period of one month in 5 sessions (Baroda, India). Group 2 did not receive any food safety education.

FINDINGS: The results indicated a 33% reduction in the diarrhoeal morbidities of the children in the Group 1 where mothers were imparted education on "safe food" practices and diarrhoeal morbidities among children where mothers were not counselled remained unchanged. A significant improvement occurred in the knowledge regarding hygiene and role of microbial contamination in the causation of diarrhoea along with improved perception of hand washing and avoidance of feeding left over contaminated foods as preventive measures. This was supported by reduction in the microbial counts of most samples.

CONCLUSION: The findings of the present study have shown that specific health related instructions given to the mothers such as importance of hand washing and information on the hygienic use of latrines are beneficial. Hence it can be concluded that food safety education can be successfully used as an intervention strategy to reduce diarrhoeal morbidities in children under 2 years of age.