If you are joining us at the SBCC Summit, please visit booths #32 and #33, where you can meet CCP staff and learn about our proven tools. CCP staff will also be presenting their work throughout the week.
With a record 1,266 abstract submissions from 95 countries, the response to the call for abstracts for the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit has been incredible.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic hit the Caribbean in the late ‘70s. By 2001, it had become the second-most affected region in the world with an estimated 420,000 people – more than two percent of the adult population – living with HIV, according to a UNAIDS/WHO
Abstracts are now being accepted for Shifting Norms, Changing Behavior, Amplifying Voice: What Works? The 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit featuring Entertainment-Education. In 2016, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) co-hosted the first Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit,
Personal stories are powerful. They can open new worlds and ideas, move people on issues they’d never considered and, ultimately, change behaviors. The newest tool from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), produced by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) project, harnesses this
It doesn’t seem like the catchiest title, but a song called “1-800-273-8255” is a hit. The numbers are more than a random string of digits: 1-800-273-8255 is the actual phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. And, thanks to the song, people are calling
Our most effective weapon to date against malaria? Insecticide-treated bed nets, delivered by the millions to Africa. But, increasingly, the bugs are changing. Mosquitoes are becoming immune to the insecticide used in the nets, endangering entire communities in malaria-endemic areas. Insecticide-treated nets are still a
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health recently opened voting for 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders, their annual event to recognize outstanding young leaders in family planning. This year, we’re excited to announce that eight CCP
Arriving at the meeting hall, Kebebush Bekele, a health extension worker from the Badewacho district in Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region, was excited to see “social mobilization” activities – or activities that use dialogue to bring together local stakeholders to raise awareness of
CCP is generating demand among youth for family planning methods and services in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by helping give voice to young people who have stories to tell and advice to share with their peers, their parents and health providers. Until now,
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