Years after the population, health and environment program ended, new findings suggest many communities have continued to nurture the seeds planted.
The people of Uganda were locked down during COVID. Now, an Ebola outbreak means another public health crisis to worry about.
Instead of rising during the pandemic to slow the spread of COVID-19, new CCP research finds that handwashing rates actually fell in parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Ugandans between the ages of 18 and 29 say their access to services such as family planning and maternal and child health has been limited by the pandemic, according to a CCP survey.
CCP has received a $35 million, five-year award from USAID for an innovative integrated social and behavior change project in Uganda.
Global Health: Science and Practice is published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs’ Knowledge for Health project, which is supported by USAID.
“There’s a need for new tools to complement what’s already available and to protect people during times, and in settings, where people are at risk but net use is not feasible,” says CCP’s April Monroe, who is part of the $33.7 million grant from Unitaid.
Five years ago, a group of pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and nonprofits pledged to work together to, by 2020, eliminate 10 neglected tropical diseases. Taken together, these communicable diseases impact more than 1.5 billion people around the world, particularly those living in poverty, without access
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is highlighting the work of two current CCP staff members on the jhsph.edu homepage this week. Amber Summers, based in Baltimore, and Cheryl Lettenmaier, based in Uganda, took very different paths to get to CCP — and
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) adapt materials for cancer patients in East Africa, where misinformation and fear are roadblocks to early diagnosis and treatment.
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