As the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project closes, its director, Elizabeth Serlemitsos, discusses the legacy it leaves behind.
“It’s wonderful to see how well the investments in malaria … made over the last decade or so are paying off,” says CCP’s Angela Acosta, the malaria technical advisor for the Malaria Behavior Survey.
Report chronicles progress being made toward eliminating a variety of infectious diseases from malaria to HIV.
The Breakthrough ACTION project is working with governments and other agencies in several countries to encourage caregivers to bring their young children for the four-dose vaccine.
Maryam Abubakar Haruna lost her first three pregnancies. After a conversation with a community volunteer trained by the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria project, she attended prenatal care appointments – and gave birth to her first healthy baby.
After years of support and training, a CCP-led project has officially handed off to the Tanzanian government all oversight of insecticide-treated bed net distribution to pregnant women and young children.
In Mozambique, CCP is working to educate men about the health risks of malaria, and encouraging them to share decision-making power with their wives.
A ceremony in Nigeria closes one chapter of a social and behavior change movement, led by CCP and Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria, and hands it to the government and community members best suited to ensure these gains are sustained well into the future.
By working closely with Nigerians, who were involved in everything from identifying the challenges to developing and implementing the solutions that were part of the project’s activities, CCP’s Breakthrough ACTION prepared government and community groups to take the project successes and build on them long into the future.
Social and behavior change can encourage early prenatal care and prevention measures, keys in reducing a mother’s risk of malaria.
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