Latin America

My Community Results - Case Study

Honduras – Honduran Association for Family Planning (Asociación Hondureña de Planificación de Familia)

Issue Areas :

• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• STI/HIV/AIDS prevention

Radio Show :

“Double Meaning: A Program About Sex” featuring the drama “What’s Up with Your Life?” (Que Ondas con tu Vida)

Program Synopsis :

Since 2005, PCI has worked with the Honduran Association for Family Planning (ASHONPLAFA) to co-produce the youth drama “Que Ondas Con Tu Vida?” (What’s Up With Your Life?).

ASHONPLAFA, the International Planned Parenthood Federation affiliate in Honduras , is the country’s largest provider of sexual and reproductive health services. The group operates six regional clinics and 18 smaller clinics, and has 1,631 community-based distribution points throughout Honduras . Additionally, ASHONPLAFA runs a social marketing program that supplies approximately 600 pharmacies, supermarkets, gas stations, and other non-traditional commercial outlets with a wide variety of contraceptive methods.

The goal of their radio show, “Que ondas con tu vida” (What’s up with your life?) is to encourage young people to make positive behavior changes in regards to sexual and reproductive health, family planning, and HIV/AIDS prevention. The show is produced by and for young people, and addresses issues of importance to both heterosexual and LGBT youth. A weekly episode of the radio drama is broadcast within a call-in show for young people called “Doble Sentido: Un Programa de Sex” which reaches youth throughout Honduras . The show is promoted in both print and television sources.

2006 Project Impact

• 17.4 percent of the interviewed students said that they had listened to the radio drama, 59.8 percent of them were women.
• More listeners knew of Emergency Contraceptive Pills (25.5 percent) in comparison with non-listeners (17.4 percent). This is extremely important if we consider that only 1.3% of the base line group said they knew of PAE (Emergency Contraceptive Pills).
• 64% of the young people who listened to the radio drama defined family planning as a right as opposed to the 59% of non-listeners
• Respondents who named “monogamy” as a form of HIV/AIDS prevention increased from 19.2% to 48% between the pre-test and post-test surveys.
• 18.3% of respondents in the baseline survey could not name a single form of HIV/AIDS prevention. In the post-test, only 9% of respondents could not name a form of prevention.
• Sexual violence among adolescents: In the pre-test survey, 40% of respondents could not list a form of sexual violence. In the post-test only 9% of listeners could not list a form of sexual violence. That means that 91% of the listeners in the post-test demonstrated knowledge of sexual violence among youth.

Source: Pre and post-test surveys carried out by ASHONPLAFA with 586 students at 6 schools in Tegucigalpa . 2006

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