Population Media Center (PMC) strives to improve the health and well-being of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies, like serialized dramas on radio and television, in which characters evolve into role models for the audience for positive behavior change.
Bill Ryerson gives an overview of PMC work on October 5th, 2009 in Washington DC.
Mr. Marshall was the first speaker at the Population Strategy Meeting III. The meeting took place at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington DC on October 5th, 2009.
PMC's promotional television spot to air throughout Mali, promoting our newest radio serial drama in Mali, Jigi ma Tignè (Hope Is Allowed).Djigi ma Tignè is being aired nationwide in Mali and will address issues such as family planning, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, with a special emphasis on female genital mutilation-cutting (FGM/C). Over 92% of women and girls in Mali have been circumcised, making it one of the highest rates of FGM in the world. Learn more about PMC's programs in Mali.
Population Media Center President Bill Ryerson presents at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.
In Jamaica, PMC worked in partnership with University Research Corporation and JA-STYLE to create and produce a radio serial drama called, Outta Road ("What's Happening out in the Streets"). The drama went on the air in March 2007 and completed broadcast in March 2008.
Population Media Center works in partnership with Comunicarte, a Brazilian non-profit and TV Globo to integrate storylines dealing with reproductive health into TV Globo's hit telenovelas. One of the telenovelas TV Globo produced and broadcast was a 203-episode serial titled "Paginas da Vida," which completed broadcasting on March 2, 2007. PMC/Comunicarte and BEMFAM (Brazilian Association for Family Well-Being) worked with TV Globo to incorporate social messages into the telenovela about famil...
Population Media Center works in partnership with Comunicarte, a Brazilian non-profit and TV Globo to integrate storylines dealing with reproductive health into TV Globo's hit telenovelas. One of the telenovelas TV Globo produced and broadcast was a 203-episode serial titled "Paginas da Vida," which completed broadcasting on March 2, 2007. PMC/Comunicarte and BEMFAM (Brazilian Association for Family Well-Being) worked with TV Globo to incorporate social messages into the telenovela about famil...