The CCP-headed HCP South Africa field office was registered as a local NGO -- Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa (JHHESA) -- in October 2004. Supported by USAID, JHHESA provides technical assistance and financial support to over 16 local institutions working at the national, provincial and local levels to build capacity to design, implement, monitor, evaluate, and manage HIV and AIDS related behavior change communication programs in South Africa. JHHESA's partners -- PEPFAR, the Government of South Africa and numerous South African media and civil society organizations -- use a combination of interpersonal communication, community mobilization and mass media to emphasize messages around HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, HIV counseling and testing, and OVC. All of JHHESA's partners' activities fall into one or more of the three domains of South Africa's Pathways to a Competent Society Conceptual Framework: the social political environment, service delivery systems, and communities/individuals.
Featured Projects
Research to Prevention (R2P) is a five-year HIV prevention project funded by USAID. R2P is led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health and managed by CCP. R2Ppartners with faculty throughout the Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Nursing, as well as Tulane University, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of North Carolina. R2P seeks to answer the question: What are the most effective interventions for preventing the spread of HIV? R2P aims to promote greater use of evidence in the design and implementation of HIV prevention programs in countries most affected by the HIV epidemic. In partnership with organizations in developing countries, R2P will conduct research to identify the most effective interventions for preventing HIV, promote increased use of data to guide programs and policies, and build capacity for applied research among health professionals.
The RESPOND Project, a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), works to increase the use of high-quality family planning (FP) services. Lead by EngenderHealth, the project addresses the unmet need for healthy timing, spacing, and limiting of childbearing by improving access to long-acting and permanent methods (LA/PMs) of contraception. RESPOND promotes renewed and sustained focus on four essential programmatic principles:
- Employing evidence-based holistic planning that brings together supply, demand, and advocacy.
- Ensuring the fundamentals of care—informed and voluntary decision making, medical safety, and ongoing quality improvement.
- Addressing gender equity in decision making, services, and programs.
- Ushering programs from pilot to scale and from advocacy to action.
As part of the implementing team, CCP will support strategic social and behavior change communication initiatives that focus on demand generation for family planning and reproductive health services.
Voices III: Malaria Powerbrokers is the third iteration of the advocacy project, Voices for a Malaria-Free Future (2006-2009, 2009-2011), which seeks to mobilize political and popular support for malaria control through a variety of strategies and campaigns in four countries—Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the project has worked to expand national movements of powerful private and public sector leaders to resolve malaria control challenges linked to policies, funding and implementation.
