A Journal for East Africans by East Africans
A new health journal in East Africa, created with the help of CCP’s K4Health project, has been developed and nurtured and is ready to strike out on its own.
A new health journal in East Africa, created with the help of CCP’s K4Health project, has been developed and nurtured and is ready to strike out on its own.
CCP’s Susan Krenn sits down with model and activist Christy Turlington Burns to discuss the barriers and opportunities she sees in her work with pregnant women and mothers in the U.S. and around the world.
A CCP project increased five-fold the number of men in two Mozambican provinces undergoing circumcision in just two years. Circumcision is an HIV prevention strategy.
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.
“It’s normal to be beaten,” one woman in Senegal told researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. CCP is trying to change that.
Zika isn’t the threat it once was, but many of the recommended prevention behaviors are just as relevant for avoiding other mosquito-borne illnesses such as chikungunya and dengue. CCP has trained hundreds to spread the word.
One in four people surveyed in eastern Congo say they don’t believe Ebola is real. We need to find a way to rebuild that trust to be able to halt an outbreak that keeps spreading, says CCP’s Susan Krenn.
In Guyana’s remote interior, one of the biggest threats to gold miners comes from one of the smallest sources: Mosquitoes carrying deadly malaria parasites. CCP is working to develop solutions.
There is a lot of optimism around the promise of artificial intelligence and its application to global health, says CCP’s Marla Shaivitz.
The next International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit will be held in Morocco from March 30 to April 3, 2020. CCP leads the organizing committee.
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