Mexico

PCI-Media Impact has a long history of working in Mexico, reaching back to the very beginning of history in the 1980s. Our early television work began in Mexico and our work has continued as we have developed numerous new radio programs reaching millions of people. We first started our work colloborating with Miguel Sabido, the Mexican television producer who in the 1970s first used television soap operas for social change. In 2006, the New Yorker Magazine profiled our work and the work of Miguel Sabido. Click here to see the article.

We continue our commitment to working in Mexico. According to Plan Parenthood in Mexico about 75 percent of Mexicans live in urban areas. Many people migrate from rural areas because of the lack of job opportunities to the more industrialized urban centers or to other countries. The lack of sexual reproductive health is one of the main concerns youth have to face.

Mexican youth today still have very little knowledge about sex in general. According to the Fundación Mexicana para la Planificación Familiar (MEXFAM) just 36.5 percent of females and 42.2 percent of males that are sexually active used a condom in their first sexual intercourse and only 44 percent of married women of reproductive age in rural areas use some kind of contraceptive.

Our Programs:

The following broadcast programs have been initiated in Mexico:

El Faro: Luz y Sombra del Amor
(The Lighthouse: light and shadow of love)
Radio
Broadcast Period: April - September 2007
Program Partner: Servicio Educación Sexualidad y Salud A.C. (SEEDSSA)
Issues Covered: Women's Rights, HIV/AIDS, and Sexual and Reproductive Health

Allá está el Dinero (The money is there)
Radio
Broadcast Period: April 2007
Program Partner: Universidad de Guadalajara
Issues Covered: Poverty and Women's Rights

Ellos dicen que soy joto, yo digo que soy Juan
(They say I'm gay, I say I'm John)
Radio
Broadcast Period: April 2007
Program Partner: Universidad de Guadalajara
Issues Covered: Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, Women's Rights

Cuando Ella está Enferma (When she is sick)
Radio
Broadcast Period: May 2007
Program Partner: Universidad de Guadalajara
Issues Covered: Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, Women's Rights

D10@19 (From 10 to 19)
Radio
Broadcast Period: February 2007
Program Partner: Universidad de Guadalajara
Issues Covered: Sexual and Reproductive Health

Y Dios me Hizo Mujer (And God Made Me a Woman)
Radio
Broadcast Period: 2006
Program Partner: CASA
Issues Covered: Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS

Cortando Sueños (Cutting Dreams)
Radio
Broadcast Period: 2006
Program Partner: Ecos de Manantlan A.C.
Issues Covered: Sexual and Reproductive Health

Esta boca es mi boca (This mouth is my mouth)
Radio
Broadcast Period: 2006
Program Partner: SINERGIA
Issues Covered: HIV/AIDS

Ombligos al Sol (Belly Buttons to the Sun)
Radio
Broadcast Period: 2000-2004
Program Partner: PCI-Media Impact - Mexico
Issues Covered: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Youth Issues, HIV/AIDS

Other programs in which PCI-Media Impact colloborated in the program development:
Los Hijos de Nadi (TV) 1997-1998
Nosotros las mujeres (TV) 1981-1982
Caminemos (TV) 1987-1988
Vamos Juntos (TV) 1987-1988
Acompaname (TV) 1986-1987

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