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Rwandan Health Program Promotes Healthier Behaviors

When a family planning campaign in Rwanda was successful, demand for family planning (FP) services in the targeted district increased so much that its health center could no longer attend to each request. To accommodate the overflow, a second health center began providing additional FP

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CCP Wins $40 Million K4Health Project for Family Planning

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP) has been awarded a five-year, $40 million global health project from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to strengthen knowledge and information use and exchange among health program managers and service providers,

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Celebrating 40 Years of POPLINE Sharing FP Knowledge

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) is pleased to celebrate the 40th anniversary of POPLINE, a comprehensive database that provides access to the world’s population, family planning and related public health literature to clients in developing countries and

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Ghana’s Schools Embrace LLIN Distribution for Healthy Students

While students in Ghana prepare for a competition to see who can perform the most community outreach around long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs)  parents participate in Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) to organize their own outreach activities. This initiative has impacted thousands of schools in the country. NetWorks,

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27th Leadership in Health Communication Workshop in June 2014

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) is pleased to announce that the 27th Leadership in Strategic Health Communication (LSHC) Workshop will take place from June 1-20, 2014 in Baltimore, Maryland. The LSHC workshop integrates communication theory and experiential

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Harnessing the Power of Communication in AIDS Control

New research conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) examines the role that communication science can play in supporting treatment-as-prevention in each stage of the HIV care process. The findings are presented in a paper published in

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Encouraging Safe Motherhood in 26 Episodes

“Since a large percentage of the Zambian population owns or has access to a radio, the Radio Distance Learning Program will provide an opportunity to bridge the information gap and help promote desirable behaviors,” explains Dr. Joseph Katema, Minister of Community Development Mother and Child

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