Taking COVID-19 Messages to Market
“We tried to make vendors see they are at a higher risk of contracting COVID because they have contact with a lot of people,” says CCP’s Felisberto Massingue. “The risk is always there.”
“We tried to make vendors see they are at a higher risk of contracting COVID because they have contact with a lot of people,” says CCP’s Felisberto Massingue. “The risk is always there.”
When COVID-19 hit, a health call center in Mozambique couldn’t keep up with demand. With the help of CCP and USAID, everyone can now get the answers they need.
CCP has trained journalists on how to provide the best information to ensure the public understands all it can about COVID-19, including how it is spread and how people can best protect themselves.
USAID has awarded nearly $10 million to the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs to help 18 countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through risk communication and community engagement activities.
An ambitious CCP proposal to bring eyeglasses to people who need them in four African countries is in the running for a $100 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
A CCP project increased five-fold the number of men in two Mozambican provinces undergoing circumcision in just two years. Circumcision is an HIV prevention strategy.
“Ending stigma and discrimination is essential to halting the spread of HIV,” says CCP’s Beth Mallalieu. The successful program was used in Mozambique.
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
Life for Cecilia Eduado Dete and her son, Mario, used to be very difficult. Her husband, Adelino Guambe, would drink heavily, stay away from home for days at a time and fight with her when he was around. “I had to ask him [Adelino] for
The parents of five children, Helena Nhampule and Mateus Langa have been together for over 16 years. They built their home in Maputo Province, Mozambique and lived happily until Mateus fell sick in 2007. At first, Helena accompanied her husband for treatment at the local
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