Building off a decade of success in Baltimore health programs, CCP looks to expand its domestic initiatives.
“It is amazing how evidence-based, community-centered social and behavior change interventions have changed TB case finding in Nigeria,” says Bolatito Aiyenigba, deputy project director for Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria.
Health care provider behavior heavily influences the quality of health services and a client’s experience of care, particularly for women seeking care for family planning and reproductive health.
Community volunteers trained by the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project are dispatched to provide critical nutrition advice to new parents.
“There’s much less trust in the negative rapid diagnostic test result than there is in the positive one,” says CCP researcher Kathryn Sugg.
A new social mobilization approach, led by The Challenge Initiative, has significantly increased the number of women receiving family planning services in health facilities.
A new CCP-led study suggests that youth-friendly interventions for pregnant adolescents could increase early prenatal visits, which could reduce malaria and improve birth outcomes.
“Providers said the training showed them new ways, and the importance, of understanding adolescents and young clients as people,” says CCP’s Alfayo Wamburi.
A CCP-led program in Bangladesh has developed creative ways to boost COVID-19 vaccine uptake among its young people.
Marla Shaivitz, CCP’s director of digital strategy, makes sense of what role artificial intelligence may play in the field in the future — and what is already happening now.
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