Since May, CCP has conducted four two-week leadership workshops in French-speaking countries (Senegal, Cote dâIvoire, Madagascar and Niger), training 155 participants thus far. Another session is scheduled for Cameroon in December.
Research suggests that comprehensively considering how HIV threatens many aspects of menâs lives â instead of just their health â could help more men initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART).
CCP, which leads a successful program designed to prevent HIV in adolescents and young women, has created a new program for women over 30.
In Cote d'Ivoire, CCP's research is designed to develop messaging that would help prevent the spread of the next outbreak of a zoonotic disease in West Africa â that is, a disease that can be spread from animals to humans.
A CCP-led research team in West Africa is exploring a new question: If people do travel to the nearest family planning clinic, do they have confidence that theyâll receive quality care?
âUnderstanding the perspective of men is critical to tailoring health communication and clinical services to meet their needs,â says CCP's Natalie Tibbels. Her research is published in the journal PLOS ONE.
An evaluation of CCPâs Brothers for Life program in Cote dâIvoire finds that it was successful in getting at-risk men tested for HIV and, if diagnosed with the virus, treated with antiretroviral therapy.
âMany men are not going into the health centers. Somehow you need to bring the test to them,â says CCP's Danielle Naugle. âWe need to make it as easy as possible for them to be tested."
Men in Cote d'Ivoire aren't being tested for HIV because they are afraid of what the impact of a positive result would be on not only their health, but their family, work, social status and sexuality. But being tested is the only way to get treated -- and reduce the risk of the spread of the virus.
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