A Mosquito Emoji for Public Health Takes Flight
The mosquito emoji, proposed by CCP and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and approved by the Unicode Consortium, is coming to your smartphone this summer.
CCP Hackathon Aims to Keep Drug Users Safe
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs recently brought together members of Bmore POWER, a group of peer advocates and educators, for a three-day hackathon to quickly create messages aimed at preventing people from overdosing on fentanyl and dying.
When Service Providers Say ‘No’
Health clinics were turning away many of the women sent for contraception. To get family planning providers onboard, CCP had to change its approach.
Stocking Shelves, Changing Minds
Each woman in Mali gives birth to an average of six children. And talk of sex, let alone family planning, is considered taboo here. Despite these obstacles, last year CCP and its partners in the USAID-funded Keneya Jemu Kan (KJK) project sold 14.9 million condoms, 50 percent more than they anticipated.
What’s in the New Issue of Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP)?
The latest issue of Global Health: Science and Practice (GHSP), based at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, is rich with articles on a wide variety of topics related to family planning.
‘Press 1’ for Family Planning
The same phone technology that allows us to “press 1 to make a same-day appointment” can be used to get spouses in Africa to talk to each other about family planning and increase the use of modern contraception.
Record Number of Abstracts Received for the 2018 SBCC Summit
With a record 1,266 abstract submissions from 95 countries, the response to the call for abstracts for the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit has been incredible.
Halting Neglected Tropical Diseases Through Behavior Change
Five years ago, a group of pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and nonprofits pledged to work together to, by 2020, eliminate...
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CCP’s Newest Project Ramping Up Across the Globe
In the five months since the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs was awarded the five-year, $300-million Breakthrough ACTION project...
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Educating a Captive Audience: CCP Creates Videos for Pregnant Ethiopians as They Wait for Their Babies
A top priority of Ethiopian health officials is to get more women to give birth in health facilities, rather than...
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