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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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Palliative Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Appraisal

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This report assesses the current provision of palliative care across sub-Saharan Africa and makes recommendations for scaling up its delivery to reach more of the people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-limiting disease.

The report offers an overview of existing palliative care models inSub-Saharan Africa and provides foundation for donors, policy makers and practitioners wishing to scale-up palliative care provision in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Topics included:
  • What are the contextual variables of palliative care specific to sub-Saharan Africa?
  • Reducing suffering: the overdue need to include palliative care forpeople with HIV
  • What role should palliative care take in HIV/AIDS patient management in sub-Saharan Africa?
  • How can home and community-based care be strengthened?
  • Which models of palliative care have been delivered in Africa, how, by whom and to which patients?
  • Tuberculosis care: are there parallel opportunities?/li>
  • How have TB programmes sought to develop and improve patientoutcomes?
Click here to download the report in PDF.
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106
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The Work Continues Website.