#FPFriday Brings Family Planning Info to 20 Million in Nigeria
“Social media is such a powerful tool to use to reach young people,” says CCP’s Aisha Waziri.
“Social media is such a powerful tool to use to reach young people,” says CCP’s Aisha Waziri.
If comfortable, convenient and attractive insecticide-treated bed nets were sold in shops, millions of Ghanaians would buy and use them, suggests a new market analysis led by CCP.
“We are charged with putting a comprehensive strategy and system in place so that should an emergency occur, we will be ready to respond,” says CCP’s Kathryn Bertram.
CCP’s David Alexander gave a crash course at ICFP2018 in how to conduct interviews and capture photographs like those featured on the FPVoices website.
“Many rural women in Ethiopia aren’t open to modern family planning until they have more than four children,” says CCP’s Habtamu Tamene.
A CCP-led advocacy program in Tanzania used data outlining the high costs of paying for health care for pregnant women and young children to convince the nation’s leading private health insurer to begin covering the costs of modern contraception.
Led by PAHO, an annual award highlights achievements in the fight against malaria in the Americas – and brings awareness that the work isn’t done.
“If you really want to eliminate malaria, you have to look at what’s causing the remaining malaria cases once you have good prevention tools in place,” says CCP’s April Monroe.
With the ultimate aim of increasing Nigeria’s TB case detection rate, the CCP-led research team set out to put themselves in the shoes of their end users. They interviewed more than 240 people over three weeks.
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