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.
My journey to Uganda to visit a youth-led organization that creates flash mobs was as amazing as it sounds — not just because the dance parties increase awareness of and access to health services, but because the work is driven by compassion and delivered with
What happens when song and dance competitions, theater and humorous radio spots meet long lasting insecticidal mosquito nets? Learning about net care and repair becomes exciting! Ajiro Hellen Mary, a 30 year-old mother of four explained, “Previously in my own thinking the net that has
Study Underscores Need for Behavior Change around Water Use and Sanitation New formative research on trachoma by JHU∙CCP highlights water use behaviors, in addition to lack of access to clean water and sanitation resources, as a significant driver of the disease. The research, conducted in
How can Uganda save the 100,000 lives a year that are currently taken by malaria? This is the question that a new national multi-sectoral malaria reduction task force will examine as part of an effort that the Uganda Minister of Finance announced during a recent
Uganda has launched a national campaign to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, estimated to be the cause of approximately 20% of new HIV infections each year. As many as 30,000 babies born in Uganda this year will be born with HIV. With little access to
In a recent study, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP) found that a good proportion of Ugandans still hold negative attitudes about people with HIV, and possession of these stigmatizing attitudes is associated with a lower
When the Health Communication Partnership Uganda (HCP) says Mweraba (goodbye) at the end of June, the Uganda Ministry of Health and HCP partner organizations will not have to bid farewell to the many campaigns and strategies developed by the project. HCP’s influence will continue through
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