We have placed notes throughout the review as a reminder that the current content on this page does not necessarily reflect our up-to-date view. We discussed those concerns with DMI notes from that conversation are available here. After reviewing the results of the RCT in Burkina Faso, we have several concerns about both the evidence that DMI's program led to increases in healthcare utilization and the evidence that these increases in healthcare utilization led to declines in child mortality ( more). Our view as of April 2021 is that we do not plan to prioritize additional consideration of this program, given the limitations of the evidence of the effect of DMI’s media campaigns on child mortality.

We report these figures here at DMI's request but note that they are not the product of our own analysis and are not comparable with cost-effectiveness metrics reported elsewhere in our research. DMI claims that these studies provide evidence that its campaign 'led to increases in healthcare consultations for malaria (a 56% increase in year 1), pneumonia (39% increase in year 1), and diarrhea (73% increase in year 1), as well as significant increases in antenatal care and births at a health facility.' It further claims that 'these increases indicate reductions in mortality (9.7% increase in year 1) and a cost-effectiveness level at scale of $420 per life saved' (more detail in footnote). Since then, those endline results and follow-up analyses have been published in Sarrassat et al 2018, Murray et al 2018, and Kasteng et al 2018. The majority of this page was written in 2015, when we had seen midline but not endline results from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the effect of a radio campaign by Development Media International (DMI) on child mortality in Burkina Faso. 1įor discussion of DMI's programming related to COVID-19, see this grant page. We have not deeply investigated DMI's programming related to family planning. This page focuses on DMI's radio programming that is aimed at reducing child mortality. A note on this page's content, from July 2021

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