A CCP-led campaign to promote COVID-19 and routine vaccinations in several African countries earlier this year has won a Silver Anthem Award.
Maryam Abubakar Haruna lost her first three pregnancies. After a conversation with a community volunteer trained by the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria project, she attended prenatal care appointments – and gave birth to her first healthy baby.
When rumors surfaced about Nigerians dying of a mysterious illness after crossing the local river, CCP training alleviated fears, and helped people to seek health care again on the other shore.
A model used in Nigeria to help pay for certain family planning expenses at the state level is sustainable and could be a blueprint for others trying to stretch reproductive health dollars.
A ceremony in Nigeria closes one chapter of a social and behavior change movement, led by CCP and Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria, and hands it to the government and community members best suited to ensure these gains are sustained well into the future.
The CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria project helped local Nigerian communities make key health decisions — and find ways to fund them.
By working closely with Nigerians, who were involved in everything from identifying the challenges to developing and implementing the solutions that were part of the project’s activities, CCP’s Breakthrough ACTION prepared government and community groups to take the project successes and build on them long into the future.
“In every society, journalists play a role in disseminating information,” says CCP’s Olayinka Umar-Farouk. “To do this better, journalists must be adequately trained as part of preparedness efforts for future outbreaks.”
More than a million Nigerians have played two interactive new games developed by the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria project since March 2020.
With all eyes on the African soccer tournament, the Breakthrough ACTION project has created soccer-themed messages to promote COVID-19 vaccination and routine immunizations to audiences in four countries.
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