“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,
Three projects led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) were selected by The Guardian as among the five best public health campaigns in the global south, specifically for the impact they had on ending preventable diseases. In Zambia,
Nafisa was confronted with a problem faced by many educated young adults in urban Tanzania. Despite her college degree, she was unable to find employment due to scarce opportunities, a weak economy and inexperience. “It was so depressing,” recalls Nafisa. “I had the educational qualifications
The second phase of the innovative concurrent partnerships reduction campaign in Tanzania – Tuko wangapi? Tulizana (How many are we? Settle down) – launched amidst great excitement in early September. “Concurrent partnership behavior is a challenge in our country, and it is a behavior that
Peace Corps announced today the signing of a global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Johns Hopkins University on behalf of the Bloomberg School of Public Health to strengthen collaboration and increase opportunities for Peace Corps volunteers in public health. Volunteers serving in 22 countries can
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