ASB information campaign on COVID-19

13/04/2020

ASB Country Office Ukraine has launched an information campaign on Hromadske Radio with an aim to raise public awareness on COVID-19. Information campaign of ASB consists of two components, a short daily promo and a weekly program on COVID-19.

In line with the recommendations of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, a one-minute promo highlights importance of personal hygiene and social distancing. It also provides phone numbers of the government hotline on COVID-19 as well as the hotline of the Centre of Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The ASB promo is broadcasted four times a day.

Second component of ASB’s information campaign is a weekly program “Social distance”, prepared by Hromadske Radio in collaboration with ASB CO Ukraine. This radio program represents a series of interviews with highly qualified Ukrainian medical specialists and psychologists who provide medical and psychological recommendations to the radio audience. The program is aired on Hromadske Radio (https://hromadske.radio/) each Thursday, at around 13:00. The series of radio programs is planned until the end of June 2020, with possible extension if needed. The information campaign is funded by the HQ of ASB Germany.

You can listen to podcasts of interviews from the previous issues of “Social Distance” or on the website of Hromadske Radio by following the link below:
https://hromadske.radio/podcasts/sotsial-na-dystantsiia

The full programmes are available for listening in the “Audio” section on the ASB website.

Hromadske Radio is an independent non-commercial and non-governmental radio station. The potential radio audience is over 1.5 million listeners in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Dnipro, Odesa, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.