Tanzania Communication and Development Center (TCDC) understands the power of setting a healthy example; at times against the rhythms of a live, message-rich soundtrack. In February, TCDC, a member of CCP’s worldwide network, helped to present a four-day festival where thousands received medical services and
Having too many children is not good. Everyone knows his capacity, and I think it is necessary to limit your childbirth to what your capacity can take you. God will not come down from heaven to help.” —From a CCP interview with a 24-year-old Nigerian
In an article on CNN this week, Susan Krenn, Director of CCP explained the importance of using entertainment education to transmit health messages. “This type of programming [entertainment education] really allows you to use creativity and pull people in for the value of the entertainment,
Men and women across Tanzania equate the Green Star logo with family planning. This is thanks to a decades-long effort that saw the logo launched alongside a family planning campaign in 1993, and reintroduced in 2013. However, despite the success of these Green Star efforts,
“Women take a central stage in this administration,” explained Honorable Taoreed Adeleke, Executive Chairman of the Ibadan South West Local Government Area. “I am also passionate because I have a wife, I have a mother and I know they have benefitted one way or the
Locally known as Tupange (“Let’s Plan”), the Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Initiative has spent the last three years empowering youth living in urban slums to take control of their lives and build a brighter future with family planning (FP). Tupange’s work was recently featured by
K4Health is pleased to mark World Humanitarian Day with the release of its new Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings Toolkit. This Toolkit provides donors, decision makers, program managers, health service providers, including emergency workers, and communications professionals, with a carefully selected collection of state-of-the-art resources
Hailed as “an excellent and worthwhile resource” by a field-based user, the new K4Health Family Planning Advocacy Toolkit provides information and tools to advocates to make the case for improved access to voluntary family planning (FP). Ensuring access to voluntary FP is a cost effective,
“Tanzanian girls need access to both education and contraception if they want a better future than that of their mothers,” argued Halima Shariff in an opinion editorial she co-authored earlier this month with Suzanne Ehlers, President and CEO of Population Action International. Shariff is the
“Before now, family planning (FP) in Offa was not so good. We had to go from house to house begging people to adopt FP,” explains Ruth Dare, a registered nurse and FP provider in Offa town, Nigeria. “But now, people are ready for FP. With
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