CCP used technology to quickly assess attitudes and barriers to COVID-19 vaccinations — and to respond with new messages to increase vaccine uptake.
Working with the government, CCP helped some of the most vulnerable people in Bangladesh access COVID-19 vaccines last month. Now, building on that success, another mass vaccination is scheduled for next weekend.
With low COVID-19 vaccination rates in the Democratic Republic of Congo, CCP is using testimonials from those who have already chosen to be vaccinated to help others understand why they should, too.
The additional money will be for work in 12 countries in Africa and Asia to promote the use of COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic.
Economic downturns in 129 of the world’s low- and middle-income countries due to COVID-19-related lockdowns, border closings and more may have killed hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five in the first year of the pandemic.
As the highly contagious variant of COVID-19 has spread across the United States, a significantly higher percentage of Americans have sought testing for the virus, tested positive for the virus and say they are more concerned about getting sick.Â
The extension from USAID means Breakthrough ACTION, its flagship global social and behavior change project, can continue its critical work in family planning, malaria, COVID-19 and more.
While worst-case scenarios haven’t come true, COVID has distracted African health officials who focus on endemic problems, such as malaria.
With COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5-11 rolling out in the United States this month – and vaccines for kids ages 12-17 approved since May – a dashboard developed by CCP shows what American parents are saying about whether they would get their kids vaccinated and why.
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.
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