Lessons Learned from Using Celebrities as Public Health Messengers
During COVID-19 pandemic, CCP led a social media campaign in Malawi using influencers to share messages about vaccination. Results were mixed.
During COVID-19 pandemic, CCP led a social media campaign in Malawi using influencers to share messages about vaccination. Results were mixed.
With all eyes on the African soccer tournament, the Breakthrough ACTION project has created soccer-themed messages to promote COVID-19 vaccination and routine immunizations to audiences in four countries.
Stakeholders are building on COVID-19 lessons to shape resilient health systems that can accommodate vaccines and withstand future pandemics.
Older Indonesians helped their peers make the decision be vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of a CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION activity.
A CCP-led program trains local shopkeepers in Bangladesh to be sources of not just supplies but information, notably on COVID-19 vaccination.
“We are proud to be able to continue serving people around the world who want to be protected from what is still a global pandemic,” says the director of the Breakthrough ACTION project.
“What this research shows is that strategies for pandemic response should include interventions to address financial barriers to health care as well as other financial impacts,” says CCP’s Tuo-Yen Tseng.
For three weeks ending in October, vaccine caravans spread out across Mozambique with a mission: Giving adolescents ages 12 to 17 the opportunity to get their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
CCP researchers found that many COVID-19 prevention strategies were seen as “anti-social” in Côte d’Ivoire, leading to less adherence. This knowledge has helped reframe COVID-19 messaging in the African nation.
A COVID rumor tracking system in Guyana created MythBusters materials to successfully provide the public with valid information and promote preventive behaviors, a CCP study finds.
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