CCP Boosts SBCC Skills Across French-Speaking Africa
Since May, CCP has conducted four two-week leadership workshops in French-speaking countries (Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Madagascar and Niger), training 155 participants thus far. Another session is scheduled for Cameroon in December.
Prioritizing Behavioral Messages During the Zika Crisis
“With so many behaviors being recommended, and potentially contradictory messages being promoted, there was a fear of confusion in the general public,” CCP's Alice Payne Merritt recalls from the early days of Zika.
‘Everyone Has the Power of Our Own Voice’
For World Contraception Day, Tlaleng Mofokeng, a doctor and activist in South Africa, and CCP's Susan Krenn had a lively discussion of sexual and reproductive health, taboos and leadership.
CCP’s VectorWorks Project Comes to a Close after Five Years
Over the past five years, CCP has helped deliver 55 million insecticide-treated bed nets, initiated a game-changing new way to distribute them more efficiently and fundamentally altered the way that experts look at mosquito net access and use.
CCP Song Featured in London Museum
“We’re really interested in the value of songs as a communications tool," says Clare Barlow, curator of a new exhibit at the Wellcome Collection. CCP's is included along with nine other songs about infectious diseases.
‘Hackathon’ Aims to Reduce Stigma About Opioid Use
The goal of the hackathon: To quickly brainstorm ideas for how to reduce the stigma of addiction, in this case among doctors and nurses and others in the health care system.
2020 SBCC Summit Accepting Proposals/Abstracts
Registration is also open for the 2020 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit to be held March 30 to April 3 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Indonesian Government Adopts CCP Family Planning Model
Indonesia’s national family planning agency has adopted a program developed by CCP that has boosted the use of modern contraception in several regions of the country and is now scaling it up nationwide.
From Hot Spots to Holy Places
Selling condoms and other health products as part of CCP's Keneya Jemu Kan project has helped provide a livelihood to a group of women in rural Mali. “It has become a source of life for many families,” says one seller.
Looking at HIV Treatment with a New Lens
Research suggests that comprehensively considering how HIV threatens many aspects of men’s lives – instead of just their health – could help more men initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART).