USAID asked CCP to help understand how to improve adherence to HIV medications in South Africa among those who were struggling the most to stay on treatment.
“Ending stigma and discrimination is essential to halting the spread of HIV,” says CCP’s Beth Mallalieu. The successful program was used in Mozambique.
DHS has collected important health data through more than 300 surveys in more than 90 countries since 1984. CCP has been part of the project for 15 years.
“It’s quick and it’s easy. It reduces work for health workers and improves the client’s experience at the same time,” says CCP’s Thomas Ofem. “It’s making decisions in real time and getting results.”
“Many men are not going into the health centers. Somehow you need to bring the test to them,” says CCP’s Danielle Naugle. “We need to make it as easy as possible for them to be tested.”
Jane Brown is an advocate for thinking about and addressing the way that disease spreads, biologically and socially, especially when it comes to HIV among women.
Men in Cote d’Ivoire aren’t being tested for HIV because they are afraid of what the impact of a positive result would be on not only their health, but their family, work, social status and sexuality. But being tested is the only way to get treated — and reduce the risk of the spread of the virus.
“I have heard some girls saying, ‘We now want guys who are circumcised, we no longer want the uncircumcised ones as they may have [HIV/AIDS]’,” one uncircumcised 16-year-old from Zimbabwe told researchers.
In the five months since the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs was awarded the five-year, $300-million Breakthrough ACTION project by the U.S. Agency for International Development, seven countries have already signed on to the social and behavioral change project. Along with those seven countries
The HIV/AIDS epidemic hit the Caribbean in the late ‘70s. By 2001, it had become the second-most affected region in the world with an estimated 420,000 people – more than two percent of the adult population – living with HIV, according to a UNAIDS/WHO
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