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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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Harm Reduction Awareness-Raising Posters

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This series of 4 posters - available online and in printed format - emerges from a cross-Canada tour of community-based harm reduction programmes that provide services to people who use illegal drugs. The Canadian Harm Reduction Network (CHRN) and the Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) conducted a symposium and a series of site visits of various harm reduction programmes and services, as well as focus groups with people who use drugs and/or the services, to document harm reduction programmes and practices, and to see what works well and what does not.

The posters include images and quotations from focus group participants who were part of the 17-month research and information-dissemination process. They are designed to raise awareness and could be used as a resource by someone who uses or has used drugs, a frontline service provider, an administrator, a programme developer, a researcher, a public servant, or an advocate.

To view and download them, please click here. Organisers say: "Feel free to disseminate the posters, print them, post them on your desktop as wallpaper." To obtain print-quality files (so that 2' x 3' posters can be made), contact CHRN directly at noharm@canadianharmreduction.com
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Email from Walter Cavalieri to The Communication Initiative on February 1 2009; and CAS website.