“It’s quick and it’s easy. It reduces work for health workers and improves the client’s experience at the same time,” says CCP’s Thomas Ofem. “It’s making decisions in real time and getting results.”
“Many men are not going into the health centers. Somehow you need to bring the test to them,” says CCP’s Danielle Naugle. “We need to make it as easy as possible for them to be tested.”
“I have heard some girls saying, ‘We now want guys who are circumcised, we no longer want the uncircumcised ones as they may have [HIV/AIDS]’,” one uncircumcised 16-year-old from Zimbabwe told researchers.
In the five months since the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs was awarded the five-year, $300-million Breakthrough ACTION project by the U.S. Agency for International Development, seven countries have already signed on to the social and behavioral change project. Along with those seven countries
The HIV/AIDS epidemic hit the Caribbean in the late ‘70s. By 2001, it had become the second-most affected region in the world with an estimated 420,000 people – more than two percent of the adult population – living with HIV, according to a UNAIDS/WHO
Across Africa, women are more likely to be tested and treated for HIV and are more likely to stay on treatment than men. Men tend to avoid testing and when they do access care, it is often at a later stage of infection. We see
Felix Chipoya had no background in health before he linked up with One Community, a comprehensive USAID-funded initiative to prevent, test for and link people to treatment HIV in Malawi. “Before our work, very few people were getting tested, some because of long distances to
In 2012, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) embarked on a mission, backed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and supported by several international partners. As the leader of the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative project (HC3), we set out to
Although one of Africa’s smallest countries, Swaziland has the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. A 2017 survey found that nearly a third of the population between the ages of 18 and 49 was HIV positive and there are about 2,600 new cases of HIV
According to the December issue of Global Health: Science and Practice, despite its apparent benefits, vasectomy demand among men has plateaued globally. The featured article suggests that the key to demand generation relies on vasectomy-specific messaging and broader social and behavior change communication (SBCC) efforts
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