To remove some of the stigma associated with menstruation in the workplace, CCP is conducting a menstrual health and hygiene program in Kenya
CCP will support 23 oral and poster presentations at the three-day Roll Back Malaria Social and Behavior Change Working Group, delivering 10 of them and co-authoring 13 more.
CCP researchers are looking to understand how people feel about this new type of malaria protection and how best to drive usage once it is approved.
“Providers said the training showed them new ways, and the importance, of understanding adolescents and young clients as people,” says CCP’s Alfayo Wamburi.
Since 2020, The Pitch has supported 12 exciting innovations led by local and regional institutions, giving out $600,000 to organizations in Asia and Africa.
Years after the population, health and environment program ended, new findings suggest many communities have continued to nurture the seeds planted.
The Pitch, spearheaded by CCP’s Knowledge SUCCESS project, aims to find and fund creative knowledge management ideas for family planning.
Instead of rising during the pandemic to slow the spread of COVID-19, new CCP research finds that handwashing rates actually fell in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
“What we found is that consumers are clearly looking for and purchasing mosquito control products that are easy to use, can be used indoors and outdoors and provide protection outside of sleeping hours,” says CCP’s Danielle Piccinini Black.
But the high rate of HIV infections, despite gold-standard care in the trial, is a call to action for improved HIV prevention and contraceptive choice for women that addresses social and structural factors influencing behavior.
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