With the fastest growing mobile industry in the world and 16.6 million new rural mobile phone customers per month, India continues its battle against maternal and infant mortality. India’s most populated state, Uttar Pradesh (UP), has among the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in
The Bangladesh Knowledge Management Initiative (BKMI) launched a three-month eHealth Pilot Program on April 2. The program seeks to strengthen Health, Population and Nutrition (HPN) communication efforts in Sylhet and Chittagong districts by promoting new innovations, creating partnerships and building capacity, for example, by providing
New data from the Tanzania Capacity and Communication Project (TCCP) demonstrate that mobile technology has quickly become an essential source of important health information in Tanzania. TCCP’s Jiamini! (“Be Confident!”) Campaign uses a text message platform to provide information about family planning methods and service
Today, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) present findings from a recent evaluation of its Global Health eLearning platform at the 19th International AIDS Conference. The Global Health eLearning platform was designed to meet the diverse
Today, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) Knowledge for Health (K4Health) project presented work on building eLearning capacity for HIV/AIDS programming in Southern Africa at the 19th International AIDS Conference. The presentation highlighted how the K4Health project enabled
“The Leadership in Strategic Health Communication workshop meant a lot to me; it simply made me do my work better and with confidence.” -Robert Mwandish (Public Health Specialist, CDC, Tanzania) “The [LSHC] workshop strengthened my capacity and confidence for strategic and productive communication and programming,
Every day in Africa, cell phones are used to connect hundreds of millions of people, share information among businesses and transfer bank funds from one end of the continent to the other. Now they are being used to empower health advocates to combat an age-old
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