“I have heard some girls saying, ‘We now want guys who are circumcised, we no longer want the uncircumcised ones as they may have [HIV/AIDS]’,” one uncircumcised 16-year-old from Zimbabwe told researchers.
A large majority of people living in sub-Saharan Africa who have insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent malaria transmission sleep under them regularly. But new research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs highlights gaps in use that could provide policymakers opportunities to expand
In Tanzania, pregnant women who were exposed to a national safe motherhood campaign designed to get them to visit health facilities for prenatal care and delivery were more likely to create birth plans and to attend more prenatal appointments, according to new Johns Hopkins research.
Insecticide-treated bed nets are considered our most-effective weapon against malaria, responsible for 68 percent of the reduction in malaria cases across the world since 2000. In countries where the disease is common, an estimated 80 percent of people with a net slept under it last
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) is excited to take part in the Family Planning Summit on July 11 in London. The gathering of policymakers, donors and advocates from around the world will discuss efforts to reach Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) goals and ensure
Behavioral economics is a rapidly growing area of study rooted in psychology, economics and behavioral sciences. A driving force behind the growth of behavioral economics has been its recent application to behaviors that affect health. The standard economic model assumes that people always make decisions
Siri ya Mtungi, a television serial drama produced by CCP’s Tanzania Capacity and Communication Project (TCCP), is the winner of an AfriComNet Annual Award for Excellence. The AfriComNet awards recognize outstanding contributions made by individuals/organizations to strategic communication for health. Siri ya Mtungi, or Secrets
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
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
Men and women across Tanzania equate the Green Star logo with family planning. This is thanks to a decades-long effort that saw the logo launched alongside a family planning campaign in 1993, and reintroduced in 2013. However, despite the success of these Green Star efforts,
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