“CCP has changed lives around the world, and I am so proud to have been part of that for so long,” she says.
“It may seem that it is only the adolescent girls are the victims of child marriage,” CCP’s Faisal Mahmud says. “But in reality, child marriage brings worse consequences to the family and to the whole nation.”
In late April, after eight years of advocacy work by CCP, the House Assembly of Oyo State passed a bill requiring the state to fund family planning there. CCP staff hope other states will soon follow Oyo’s lead.
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
United Against Malaria (UAM) was named Global Campaign of the Year at the 2014 PRWeek Awards ceremony held in New York City on March 20. The designation honors UAM’s seamless integration into the 2013 Orange™ Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) soccer tournament, reaching an estimated
How can Uganda save the 100,000 lives a year that are currently taken by malaria? This is the question that a new national multi-sectoral malaria reduction task force will examine as part of an effort that the Uganda Minister of Finance announced during a recent
There’s good news on the global malaria front. Despite financial constraints in Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have upheld commitments to malaria control spending in the 2013 fiscal year, passing bills that will continue to fund efforts to save lives. Last
CCP is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, a collaborative working group launched in January 2012 that aims to gain support for frontline health workers globally. The Frontline Health Workers Coalition advocates for access to basic
CCP is pleased to announce that it will be leading Malaria Powerbrokers, a new two-year, $3-million malaria advocacy project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Malaria Powerbrokers seeks to expand the national movements of powerful private and public sector leaders in four African
Four years ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted its first Malaria Forum, engaging hundreds of leading scientists, health advocates, policy makers and government leaders in a three-day discussion about malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. Since then, measured progress—bolstered by
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