A CCP-led advocacy program in Tanzania used data outlining the high costs of paying for health care for pregnant women and young children to convince the nation’s leading private health insurer to begin covering the costs of modern contraception.
“If you really want to eliminate malaria, you have to look at what’s causing the remaining malaria cases once you have good prevention tools in place,” says CCP’s April Monroe.
“The idea of replacing mass campaigns with yearly school net distributions was pretty revolutionary, frankly,” says CCP’s Hannah Koenker. “It hadn’t ever been tried on such a large scale.”
Videos released for World Malaria Day tell the stories of the people who CCP’s VectorWorks project and the Tanzanian government rely on to help them prevent malaria.
“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 Tanzania, pregnant women who were exposed to a national safe motherhood campaign designed to get them to visit health facilities for prenatal care and delivery were more likely to create birth plans and to attend more prenatal appointments, according to new Johns Hopkins research.
Siri ya Mtungi, a television serial drama produced by CCP’s Tanzania Capacity and Communication Project (TCCP), is the winner of an AfriComNet Annual Award for Excellence. The AfriComNet awards recognize outstanding contributions made by individuals/organizations to strategic communication for health. Siri ya Mtungi, or Secrets
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
For most kids around the world, long lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN) do not feature prominently on their school supplies list. This is not the case in Tanzania. Students across southern Tanzania have received LLINs as part of the School Net Project, an initiative of the
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,
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