CCP Launches New Edition of Essential Family Planning Handbook
The new edition includes additional chapters including information on how to provide family planning services during a public health crisis.
The new edition includes additional chapters including information on how to provide family planning services during a public health crisis.
“What this research shows is that strategies for pandemic response should include interventions to address financial barriers to health care as well as other financial impacts,” says CCP’s Tuo-Yen Tseng.
For three weeks ending in October, vaccine caravans spread out across Mozambique with a mission: Giving adolescents ages 12 to 17 the opportunity to get their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
CCP researchers found that many COVID-19 prevention strategies were seen as “anti-social” in Côte d’Ivoire, leading to less adherence. This knowledge has helped reframe COVID-19 messaging in the African nation.
The tactics seem to be working: In April, the Juma community registered 44 cases of malaria. In June, there were only 15.
A COVID rumor tracking system in Guyana created MythBusters materials to successfully provide the public with valid information and promote preventive behaviors, a CCP study finds.
The goal is to create ways to encourage pregnant women to take their pills in order to determine which regimen offers best outcomes for babies.
Awareness efforts encouraging more people to seek immediate care for possible rabies exposures seem to be working and dog vaccination is up.
The Fighting Malaria with Social and Behavior Change project is designed strengthen the skills of Mozambicans to promote healthy behaviors.
In Malawi, 42 percent of girls are married before their 18th birthday. With the help of CCP, that is slowly changing.
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