Social and Behavior Change Can Counter Conditions that Allow Antimicrobial Resistance
“This presents an opportunity to utilize social and behavior change approaches to effectively tackle the global issue,” says CCP’s Issiaga Daffé.
“This presents an opportunity to utilize social and behavior change approaches to effectively tackle the global issue,” says CCP’s Issiaga Daffé.
An extensive tuberculosis (TB) campaign led by CCP has contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of TB cases identified and treated.
CCP will support 23 oral and poster presentations at the three-day Roll Back Malaria Social and Behavior Change Working Group, delivering 10 of them and co-authoring 13 more.
Using the dashboard, community leaders in Guatemala can pinpoint any number of pressing health problems and take steps toward solving them. Next year, the dashboard will be given to the government to ensure sustainability.
CCP’s Breakthrough ACTION project is working with municipalities to find ways to change social norms and allow girls to finish their schooling.
Stakeholders are building on COVID-19 lessons to shape resilient health systems that can accommodate vaccines and withstand future pandemics.
“It is amazing how evidence-based, community-centered social and behavior change interventions have changed TB case finding in Nigeria,” says Bolatito Aiyenigba, deputy project director for Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria.
Health care provider behavior heavily influences the quality of health services and a client’s experience of care, particularly for women seeking care for family planning and reproductive health.
A new CCP-led study suggests that youth-friendly interventions for pregnant adolescents could increase early prenatal visits, which could reduce malaria and improve birth outcomes.
“Providers said the training showed them new ways, and the importance, of understanding adolescents and young clients as people,” says CCP’s Alfayo Wamburi.
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