The Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, Phase 2 (NURHI 2), a five-year, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project that aims to increase contraceptive use in three Nigerian states, has been busy tackling the issue of health provider bias around family planning. Using the principles of
In a public health emergency, people need information: they need updates on the response, and perhaps more importantly, a set of actions they can take to protect themselves, their families, and communities. Communicating this information in a culturally-appropriate and empowering way, so that people not
Research shows that funding for and uptake of long-acting and permanent contraceptive methods (LAPMs) significantly increased in six districts in East Java and West Nusa Tenggara as a result of evidence-based advocacy. After three years of targeted advocacy efforts led by the Improving Contraceptive Method
How can we get more clients to health services? What can we do to improve client-provider interactions? How can we increase the adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors? These are questions we in the health service field grapple with on a regular basis. Solutions to
There’s no better way to take the pulse of a movement than to listen to what its youngest leaders have to say. Last week, [CCP-led] K4Health and FP2020’s Family Planning Voices initiative did just that in New York City, when we interviewed the 2016 World
Across the developing world, wealthier women are generally more likely than poorer women to use long-acting and permanent methods of contraception than short-acting methods, according to new research published in the March issue of Global Health: Science and Practice. The findings are based on
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
CCP will have a large presence at the fourth annual International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), held this year in Nusa Dua, Indonesia from January 25-28, 2016. Co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health in partnership with the National
Having too many children is not good. Everyone knows his capacity, and I think it is necessary to limit your childbirth to what your capacity can take you. God will not come down from heaven to help.” —From a CCP interview with a 24-year-old Nigerian
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) has been chosen to lead the Health Communication Project (HCP) in Pakistan. HCP is a six-year, $18.4 million project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). CCP will lead the
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