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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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Kiss Me Deadly

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  • Richard Van Camp

Kiss Me Deadly is a sexual health comic book for young people from the Canadian organisation The Healthy Aboriginal Network (HAN). It stars fictional characters Mona, Clint, Dougie, and grandparents and looks at aspects of respect and communication in relationships, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), two-spirited people (gays and lesbians), and sexual health as a career or youth-led project.

A sexual health worker at a clinic provides science-based information about STIs, vaccination against HPV, testing, and safe sex and serves to encourage young people to include sexual health in the medicine wheel of health issues discussed in the indigenous community. The clinic also provides a safe setting to talk about homosexuality. The grandparents discuss the dimension of fun and joy in healthy sexual relationships that are based on mutual respect and honest communication.

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Email from Sean Muir of The Healthy Aboriginal Network to The Communication Initiative on September 15 2011.

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