We at Medical Aid Films have new productions coming up in the next few months and would like to inform you of what is in production and will be available for your use in 2015. For those of you who do not know of our work you can access our freely available training and education films which we hope can complement your existing training materials here: http://medicalaidfilms.org/our-films/
For those of you already using our films please take the time to complete our short online survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JTLC6FQ) as this helps us to improve the films (10 minutes of your time), for those of you who have already done so and continue to provide feedback – thank you our expertise and understanding grows with every new piece of information and our films evolve for better use in your programs.
New films in 2015:
1. Kangaroo Mother Care – we are aware of some great existing materials by a few organisations and will be producing a film that is complementary to these.
2. Respectful Maternity Care Animation about respecting women’s basic human rights in childbirth. White Ribbon Alliance will use the film to train health workers and communities in Nigeria and Malawi, with the film available worldwide in the spring.
3. We are commencing a suite of Fistula Care training films for nurses. We will start with a pilot film, training nurses on pre and post-operative care for fistula surgery patients with Fistula Foundation. Once tested we hope to develop further films in this suite to complement further training.
4. Managing Obstructed Labour for nurse/midwife training will be developed thanks to Vitol Foundation later this year and will serve to complement the Fistula Care suite.
5. As part of 5 films identified for Reproductive Health we will be releasing the first pilot film for testing in February. Thanks so much to Pathfinder International who let us film with them in Nairobi and to so many other partners who gave us so much time and expertise to draft these films. We aim to have the five developed later in 2015 once we have tested the first film.
6. Ebola films for mobile devices – to complement the many training resources on Ebola we are planning two short animations on stigma and rebuilding trust in health systems.
Thank you to so many of you who have helped and supported our work, we make these films in the hope that they can support your training. Some amazing people have shared their stories, contributing to films that really put community members and health workers at the heart. We are hugely grateful to all our partners for their incredible work with us.
Finally, one last ask of HIFA members is that we are improving the look and accessibility of our website as a priority this year, so please let us know your thoughts on what you think works and doesn’t work and how you would like to access our materials by emailing josie@medicalaidfilms.org.
Anyone particularly interested in any upcoming productions and would like to be involved or give advice please also get in touch with me directly: josie@medicalaidfilms.org
Best wishes from everyone at Medical Aid Films
HIFA profile: Josie Gallo is Content Co-ordinator for Medical Aid Films in the United Kingdom. Professional interests: Media for development. josie AT medicalaidfilms.org
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