“Malaria-free is a possibility – It will take a lot of effort from you and me.” In his recently released single Play Your Part, the Nigerian superstar musician 2face Idibia uses the power of music to rally Nigerians around making a malaria-free life a reality
With the launch this week of a VectorWorks website in the run-up to World Malaria Day, the CCP-led project’s bounty of resources and research updates are now readily available in a central archive. The VectorWorks website “introduces the project and what we’re working on and
A mosquito net enters a household through a mass distribution campaign and quickly becomes a prized possession. It is aired out for a day or two, then hung over the bed. A mother and her two children sleep under it. In the morning, mom ties
Worth an estimated $60 million, the USAID/President’s Malaria Initiative award will support countries to strengthen LLIN distribution and proven alternative vector control measures. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) announced a five-year award from the U. S. Agency
For most kids around the world, long lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN) do not feature prominently on their school supplies list. This is not the case in Tanzania. Students across southern Tanzania have received LLINs as part of the School Net Project, an initiative of the
Two studies published today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) offer novel findings about motivations for net care and repair in Senegal and Nigeria. The studies, “You need to take care of it like you take care of
A study released today by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) suggests that rates of net use are much better than previously thought, if measured using appropriate indicators. The authors found that population access to an insecticide treated
What happens when song and dance competitions, theater and humorous radio spots meet long lasting insecticidal mosquito nets? Learning about net care and repair becomes exciting! Ajiro Hellen Mary, a 30 year-old mother of four explained, “Previously in my own thinking the net that has
The NetWorks and HC3 projects are pleased to announce the launch of a new malaria training series. The five-part online series seeks to strengthen capacity on how to use evidence and data to create strong SBCC programs for malaria prevention and control. The training is comprised of five modules,
A new editorial published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) suggests that behavior change communication (BCC) plays an increasingly important role in malaria prevention and treatment initiatives. The article, Strategic roles for behavior change communication in a changing
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