Can health promotion videos 'go viral'? A non-randomised, controlled, before-and-after pilot study to measure the spread and impact of local language mobile videos in Burkina Faso.

Background: Mobile phones present a new health communications opportunity but use of mobile videos warrants more exploration. Our study tested a new idea: to produce health promotion videos in languages for which films have never previously been produced to see if they were widely shared.

Objective: To investigate whether the novelty of films in local languages focusing on health messages would be shared 'virally' among the target population.

The Saturation+ Approach to Behavior Change: Case Study of a Child Survival Radio Campaign in Burkina Faso.

A 35-month cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in Burkina Faso to test whether a radio campaign focused on child health, broadcast between March 2012 and January 2015, could reduce under-5 mortality. This paper describes the design and implementation of the mass media intervention in detail, including the Saturation+ principles that underpinned the approach, the creative process, the lessons learned, and recommendations for implementing this intervention at scale. The Saturation+ approach focuses on the 3 core principles of saturation (ensuring high exposure to campaign messages), science (basing campaign design on data and modeling), and stories (focusing the dramatic climax on the target behavior) to maximize the impact of behavior change campaigns.

[The Burkinabe experience of the creation of a Community Advisory Committee to improve the support of HIV research projects].

Introduction: Community Advisory Committees (CAC) have become indicators of good community involvement in health research all over the world. CACs have been developed only recently in several Sub-Saharan African countries. Many countries wonder about how to create and ensure good functioning of a community advisory committee.

[Medium-term acceptability of HIV vaccine clinical trials in Burkina Faso: stakeholders' perceptions].

Introduction: The ideal response to HIV would be the discovery of an effective vaccine. Evaluation of the benefit/risk balance of this vaccine must include Africa, where the majority of HIV infections are observed. This study was designed to identify the perceptions and the medium-term acceptability of a potential vaccine trial in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).

Mobility and HIV-related sexual behavior in Burkina Faso.

This study compared HIV-related sexual behavior among mobile and non-mobile populations in Burkina Faso and identified venues where HIV/AIDS interventions targeting mobile individuals should be implemented. Men (N = 940) and women (N = 430) responded to a sexual behavior survey while socializing at venues where people meet sexual partners in eight Burkina Faso villages. Mobile women were more likely than non-mobile women to report new sexual partnerships (adjusted prevalence odds ratio (POR): 2.