New CCP Work to Focus on Reducing Congenital Syphilis
The Baltimore City Health Department has awarded CCP $225,000 to encourage testing and treating for the potentially deadly infection.
The Baltimore City Health Department has awarded CCP $225,000 to encourage testing and treating for the potentially deadly infection.
Maryam Abubakar Haruna lost her first three pregnancies. After a conversation with a community volunteer trained by the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria project, she attended prenatal care appointments – and gave birth to her first healthy baby.
CCP, supported by UNICEF, is helping to prepare public health and emergency response leaders in Uzbekistan on the best ways to share lifesaving information in future crises.
This week and last, the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project is delivering sanitary pads to 77,000 adolescent girls in Liberia.
The WISH 2 project, led by IPPF, will bring inclusive sexual and reproductive health services to hard-to-reach populations in seven nations.
A fun activity developed by the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project helps couples understand that health care costs are not as prohibitive as they seem, while encouraging people to seek services.
When rumors surfaced about Nigerians dying of a mysterious illness after crossing the local river, CCP training alleviated fears, and helped people to seek health care again on the other shore.
“Despite historical underrepresentation and ongoing gender inequity and discrimination, women in leadership roles offer unique advantages to organizations,” writes CCP Gender Advisor Esete Getachew.
The CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project is working in Mali and the DRC to ensure people with disabilities can receive key, life-saving information in an emergency.
A new, more infectious strain of mpox is infecting 1,000 people in DRC a week. CCP is hoping to help slow the spread.
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