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.
A clinical trial is exploring a potential link between certain contraceptives and HIV acquisition. Careful dissemination of the findings is vital to keeping women safe and family planning momentum going, says CCP’s Susan Krenn.
“There’s a need for new tools to complement what’s already available and to protect people during times, and in settings, where people are at risk but net use is not feasible,” says CCP’s April Monroe, who is part of the $33.7 million grant from Unitaid.
In rural Kenya in the mid-1990s, Rael Odengo had no running water, but the teen had a radio. The Youth Variety Show was her only way to get family planning information. Now, at CCP, she creates the kind of programs that shaped her youth.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) adapt materials for cancer patients in East Africa, where misinformation and fear are roadblocks to early diagnosis and treatment.
Locally known as Tupange (“Let’s Plan”), the Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Initiative has spent the last three years empowering youth living in urban slums to take control of their lives and build a brighter future with family planning (FP). Tupange’s work was recently featured by
Jongo Love, a radio series that examines relationships and family planning in urban Kenya, has received nominations for two international media awards: an International Digital Emmy Award and a One World Media Award. Created by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for
When Ruth Mueni, a 27-year old woman from Kenya, teamed up with the National Organization of Peer Educators (NOPE) to give motivational speeches to young girls, she had no idea that it would help put her on the path to winning a national beauty pageant
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