Our Impact

Our mission: to inspire and enable people to make healthy choices for themselves and their families, from using condoms to sleeping under bed nets to visiting a doctor when they are sick. Since our founding more than three decades ago, our programs have reached billions of people from the cities of Nigeria to the most rural outpost in Nepal.

Every day in so many ways, the work of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs makes a difference in the lives of people around the world.

Explore some of our recent impact stories below.

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Helped distribute 47 million insecticide-treated bed nets over five years in three countries

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Reached 1 billion people across Africa and Asia with our COVID-prevention messages

With Aimana, I have only visited the hospital once for fever and this is because I decided to exclusively breastfeed her.

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Following advocacy efforts by the MyChoice project in Indonesia, provincial and district governments allocated roughly $3.57 million for family planning

These days, there’s no reason to feel embarrassed about family planning.

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Conducted 72-hour makeovers in 500 family planning clinics across Nigeria, creating clean, fully stocked facilities, training opportunities for staff – and a much-improved environment for patients

Before I started taking the medication, I was getting sick frequently and as such, I missed school a lot. I couldn’t even play with my friends and this made me sad, but now because of my new medication, I play a lot.

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Trained more than 6,000 community leaders in Eswatini – including chiefs and their wives – on issues related to HIV and how to create safe spaces for girls and young women

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For over 30 years, our Leadership in Strategic Communication Workshop has trained more than 5,000 people from 100 countries using an integrated learning approach to design and implement strategic communication programs

They call me the family planning pastor because of my passion for anything that has to do with family planning and they see me as a leading voice championing the cause of family planning in Oyo State.

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Our One Community project in Malawi provided services and support to more than 100,000 orphans and other vulnerable children and their caregivers through its network of more than 2,000 community health workers

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Distributed 625,000 copies of our Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers, also available online in 13 languages, with four additional translations underway

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Increased number of referrals with long-term coughing – a symptom of tuberculosis – by 51% for treatment at health facilities in four Nigerian districts

The IPC skills training has changed my professional as well as personal communication.

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Decreased sleep-related infant deaths in Baltimore City by 71% through the institutionalization of safe sleep education — including a series of powerful videos featuring Baltimore families — in birthing hospitals and other systems supporting pregnant women