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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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Forum Theatre in HIV/AIDS Education

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This DVD presents examples of the interactive forum theatre method being used for creating debate and dialogue on HIV/AIDS themes such as stigmatisation, domestic violence, HIV testing, and sexual abuse. The theatre production filmed for the DVD was a collaboration between Danish actor and dramaturge Peter Sloth Madsen and the Mozambican theatre group Hopangalatana in Maputo, Mozambique in January - March 2005.

The DVD also presents three interviews with specialists working with theatre, communication or development. The actor, director and playwright Lena Bjørn talks about her professional experience with forum theatre in Denmark and Uganda. Thomas Tufte talks about Education-Entertainment (Edutainment) and his research experiences dealing with forum theatre as well as other media strategies, such as Soul City, and dramaturge Torunn Kjölner speaks about perspectives on Theatre-In-Education.

Click here for information about the project, to see excerpts from the DVD on forum theatre, and to download a video and written material.

To obtain a copy of the DVD, please email Petersloth@gmail.com with your postal address and country of residence.

Click here to download / stream in HQ (high quality.

Click here for the project's YouTube channel.

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Email from Peter Sloth Madsen to The Communication Initiative, December 25 2005, June 22 2006, and February 24 2014.