CCP has launched The Pitch, a global competition to find and fund innovative knowledge management ideas for family planning. Deadline is Feb. 4.
For more than a decade, David Alexander has managed CCP’s Photoshare, a free editorial collection of more than 30,000 captioned global health and development photos, and has advocated for the role of photography in global health communication.
How can we get more clients to health services? What can we do to improve client-provider interactions? How can we increase the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors? These are questions we in the health service field grapple with on a regular basis. Solutions to
The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership, founded in 1998, plays a key role in various aspects of malaria control, prevention, and advocacy. We sat down with Matthew Lynch, CCP’s malaria technical director, to talk about how RBM’s transformation over the years reflects the field’s evolving
Nearly half a million people die each year from malaria, a preventable and treatable condition. Bed nets are an accessible, cost-effective and proven method to reduce malaria infection, yet bed net use varies widely between communities. A number of cultural, social, and environmental factors impact
Across the developing world, wealthier women are generally more likely than poorer women to use long-acting and permanent methods of contraception than short-acting methods, according to new research published in the March issue of Global Health: Science and Practice. The findings are based on
This post by CCP staff members Rupali J. Limaye and Anne Kott originally appeared in New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center. Zika is a global health challenge. Since its outbreak in Brazil last May, the
CCP leads the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), a USAID-funded global project working to strengthen developing country capacity to implement state-of-the-art social and behavior change communication (SBCC) programs. CCP experts are on the ground in four Latin American countries on behalf of HC3, conducting rapid
“While the potential [for technology in development] is clear, the success of the thousands of projects that have sprung up using technology to close access gaps is less so. Pilots have failed to move into scalable and sustainable programs. Solutions too often reinvent the wheel rather than
Two of Nigeria’s most popular pop stars have come together to record a song about family planning. “Get It Together”, featuring Paul ‘P Square’ Okoye and Tiwa Savage, encourages listeners to become “the people wey sabi” (or “cool people”) who know about the importance of
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