In Bangladesh, CCP's Ujjiban project is using a cooking competition to improve nutrition across the country by sharing the value of healthy eating and demonstrating how to cook nutritious meals.

NUTRITION

But the high rate of HIV infections, despite gold-standard care in the trial, is a call to action for improved HIV prevention and contraceptive choice for women that addresses social and structural factors influencing behavior.

HIV

In Cote d'Ivoire, CCP's accelerated research will be used to develop messaging that could help prevent the spread of the next West African outbreak of a zoonotic disease, one that is transmitted from animals to humans.

EMERGING DISEASES

A CCP-led research team in West Africa is exploring a new question: If people do travel to the nearest family planning clinic, do they have confidence that they’ll receive quality care?

FAMILY PLANNING

Four in 10 young children in Zambia are stunted, or too short for their age, primarily the result of malnutrition. CCP developed a portable growth monitoring chart for caregivers to monitor their children and take action, if necessary.

NUTRITION

CCP Executive Director Susan Krenn sits down with model and activist Christy Turlington Burns to discuss the barriers and opportunities she sees in her work with pregnant women and mothers in the U.S. and around the world.

MATERNAL HEALTH

Vincente Tique works at a local health center in Mozambique, searching for people at risk for HIV who should be tested, people don’t know their status and are sometimes afraid of finding out. But it wasn’t always this way for Vincente.

WHY IT MATTERS