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.
“We are showing that it’s okay for a man to escort his wife to the family planning clinic,” says CCP’s Emmanuel Kayongo, deputy chief of party in Uganda.
New CCP research is meant to better understand what is behind the harmful practices of child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in Uganda.
Years after the population, health and environment program ended, new findings suggest many communities have continued to nurture the seeds planted.
The people of Uganda were locked down during COVID. Now, an Ebola outbreak means another public health crisis to worry about.
Ugandans between the ages of 18 and 29 say their access to services such as family planning and maternal and child health has been limited by the pandemic, according to a CCP survey.
CCP has received a $35 million, five-year award from USAID for an innovative integrated social and behavior change project in Uganda.
Global Health: Science and Practice is published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs’ Knowledge for Health project, which is supported by USAID.
“There’s a need for new tools to complement what’s already available and to protect people during times, and in settings, where people are at risk but net use is not feasible,” says CCP’s April Monroe, who is part of the $33.7 million grant from Unitaid.
Five years ago, a group of pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and nonprofits pledged to work together to, by 2020, eliminate 10 neglected tropical diseases. Taken together, these communicable diseases impact more than 1.5 billion people around the world, particularly those living in poverty, without access
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