Eighty churches around the city celebrated Precious Purple Sunday by raising awareness to prevent infant deaths. “Faith-based organizations are critical partners in the effort to educate Baltimore’s families about how to keep babies safe and healthy,” says CCP’s Amber Summers.
The big question is this: How can we make the radical change necessary to save mothers and their babies in Northern Nigeria? CCP is taking a deep dive to look for answers.
A CCP-led safe motherhood pilot program in Mali was so successful – doubling the number of facility-based births over a short time period – that it’s already being expanded to 38 more villages.
Following the recent rash of deaths, CCP quickly developed a new social media campaign and toolkit to reinforce the ABCDs of safe sleep and prevent more Baltimore babies from dying.
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.
The meetings, one led by CCP, will bring together social and behavior change practitioners from across the continent to learn from one another.
The new five-year USAID-funded program – called ReachHealth – is designed to help communities in the Pacific nation reduce unmet needs for family planning and decrease teen pregnancy rates.
Women in Nigeria whose clerics extol the benefits of family planning were significantly more likely to adopt modern contraceptive methods, new research suggests, highlighting the importance of engaging religious leaders to help increase the country’s stubbornly low uptake of family planning services.
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.
Harmful gender, religious and cultural norms contribute to risky pregnancies in older women and women who already have five or more children, endangering the lives of these women and their babies, new CCP research suggests.
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