Why Guineans Gamble with Zoonotic Diseases
“The health benefit of avoiding possible disease in the future might not outweigh the more urgent need to provide nutrition to their family,” says CCP’s Tilly Gurman.
“The health benefit of avoiding possible disease in the future might not outweigh the more urgent need to provide nutrition to their family,” says CCP’s Tilly Gurman.
Social and behavior change can encourage early prenatal care and prevention measures, keys in reducing a mother’s risk of malaria.
New CCP research is meant to better understand what is behind the harmful practices of child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda.
The It’s OK to Delay campaign, informed by data from the Demographic and Health Surveys Program, has reached more than 19 million people since its launch in 2021.
An extensive tuberculosis (TB) campaign led by CCP has contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of TB cases identified and treated.
“There’s much less trust in the negative rapid diagnostic test result than there is in the positive one,” says CCP researcher Kathryn Sugg.
“The mechanism works,” says CCP’s Victor Igharo, who leads The Challenge Initiative in Nigeria, to enable donor and government involvement.
To prevent malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, everyone inside the home must use nets every night, throughout the night, most or all of the year.
Prominent communication scholar Suruchi Sood, PhD, whose research focuses on social and behavior change, has rejoined the CCP as its Director of Communication Science.
Douglas Storey, an international leader in the field of communication science, a popular professor and a prolific CCP researcher, plans to retire on July 31.
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