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Population Media Center Reveals New Website
November 18, 2014 12:34 ET | Population Media Center
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 18, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An interactive map of projects completed around the world, population projections for countries, amazing photography, and audio and video clips...
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Furthering the Field: PMC Shares New Knowledge About How Gender Norms Interact with Mass Media Programs to Influence Reproductive Health and Family Planning Behavior Change
October 01, 2014 16:03 ET | Population Media Center
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT., Oct. 1, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This September, the International Journal of Population Research published an article looking at a unique aspect of behavior change relating to...
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High Listenership and Good Stories Combine for Large-Scale Behavior Change in Sierra Leone
September 25, 2014 14:03 ET | Population Media Center
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT., Sept. 25, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Imagine that for 53 cents, you could reach someone in Sierra Leone with entertaining stories that educate about family planning and using...
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Telephone Surveys in Burundi Enhance an Already Powerful Form of Behavior Change Communication
July 08, 2014 15:16 ET | Population Media Center
SHELBURNE, Vt., July 8, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Since January, people in Burundi have been listening to a new radio program called Agashi! ("Hey! Look Again!"). This 208-episode soap opera will air...
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Population Media Center Part of First Wave of SXSW Eco Programming
June 12, 2014 18:10 ET | Population Media Center
SHELBURNE, Vt., June 12, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people have voted! Population Media Center, a global leader in entertainment-education for social good, has been chosen to be part of the program...
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Sex, Soap Operas, and Social Change: Kriss Barker Teaches Sabido and Changes the World
May 19, 2014 12:38 ET | Population Media Center
SHELBURNE, Vt., May 19, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- When Kriss Barker first met Bill Ryerson in Washington DC, she thought he must be mistaken. It was 2001, and Barker, an expert in public health...
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Population Media Center Capacity Building with South-to-South Training
April 14, 2014 12:23 ET | Population Media Center
SHELBURNE, Vt., April 14, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- When Gabin Kifukiau accepted the job of Country Representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a United States nonprofit, he didn't know that...
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New Population Group Lands in Texas
March 04, 2014 16:11 ET | Population Media Center
SHELBURNE, Vt., March 4, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Everything may be bigger in Texas, but even the Lone Star State has to balance its large and rapidly growing population with limited natural resources...