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The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) is an innovative team with the overall aim of promoting health competent societies by advancing the field of health communication, based on proven and evidence-based strategies, experience, and the development of new approaches. The Partnership will create supportive environments, effective health services, and health literacy at both the individual and societal levels.
The Health Communication Partnership team includes JHU/CCP, the Academy for Educational Development, Save the Children, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, and Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
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The INFO project succeeds PIP. CCP will partner with The Alan Guttmacher Institute and Constella Group Inc. to carry out a new $33 million, 5-year global reproductive health information project. The project will collect, synthesize, and make widely available information on family planning and reproductive health. The project also will collect and disseminate best practices related to reproductive health from an array of partners in both the developed and the developing world. INFO plans to use a variety of technologies to enable health professionals and policy-makers to communicate with each other and to contribute to a comprehensive base of knowledge.
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The CORE Initiative is a USAID-funded global program designed to enhance the response of community and faith-based leaders and institutions to the causes and consequences of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The CORE Initiative is dedicated to mobilizing and building the capacity of all who influence community behavior to reduce HIV transmission; and engage those who provide the health and support services needed to improve the quality of life for those affected by HIV/AIDS. The main objectives are to leverage existing efforts, while catalyzing and encouraging new efforts through diverse and innovative partnerships in the areas of community-based prevention, stigma reduction, and care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) and their families.
Leading this initiative is CARE International in partnership with the World Council of Churches (WCC), the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, and the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP). With a global network of partners, the CORE Initiative will provide state-of-the-art technical support and organizational development to community and faith-based organizations.
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The Healthy Russia 2020 project promotes healthy behavior, encourages adoption of practices proven effective, and advocates for broad participation to reverse declining health indicators in Russia through a program of technical assistance, training, coaching, and gradual transfer of implementation and management authority of a locally-operated, membership organization. Also HR2020 is establishing and building the capacity of such an NGO whose purpose it is to mobilize support for and advocate for greater investment in achieving healthier lifestyles for all Russians. To support data sharing and dissemination among Russian professionals, HR2020 is developing a web portal which will allows members and health professionals to access and share information and tools as well as serve as a locus for distance education. Other project outcomes include creation of a web portal to serve as an omnidirectional interface and implementing mass media and communication campaigns.
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The STARH project aims to strengthen the policy environment by positioning family planning quality and choice as a political imperative, a budget priority, and a community health and health service norm and individual right. The STARH program focuses on expanding the quality of care and the choices available to Indonesian couples seeking to plan their families through the effective use of contraception. STARH is paying special attention to the newly decentralized Indonesia health care delivery system. |
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CCP provides communication support for the minimum package of basic health services, including reproductive health, child health care and nutrition, malaria prophylaxis, and HIV/AIDS prevention. To address these needs, CCP activities focus on and the implementation of national campaigns to generate demand for health services, caretakers and health care providers, and support for community-based interventions, such as neighborhood health committees. The Neighborhood Health Committee (NHC) Distance Education Radio Program for service providers supported NHC members as they moved from the training into roles as community mobilizers. The Central Board of Health endorses the program as an official distance learning program, certifying graduates as qualified in community mobilization. USAID Administrator Natsios cited a ZIHPCOMM-supported project in his testimony on HIV/AIDS before the U.S. Congress.
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The Santé Familiale et Prévention du Sida (SFPS, or Family Health and AIDS Project) was originally designed in 1994-1995 by USAID's Regional Economic Development Services Office for West and Central Africa to provide a regional mechanism for continuing health development assistance. SFPS was awarded for 5 years in 1995 and later given a 3-year extension. The initial project included four countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, and Cameroon, where SFPS has in-country offices. SFPS's reach has since extended to Niger, Benin, Mauritania, and The Congo (Kinshasa). The project's mandate is to increase the use of modern family planning methods, condoms, and ORS (oral re-hydration salts) through the identification and promotion of "best practices" in behavior change communication (BCC), service delivery, training, social marketing, and operations research. |
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Malawi's BRIDGE Program
The BRIDGE HIV/AIDS prevention program aims to change the way Malawians think and speak about HIV/AIDS and more importantly, how they act. CCP and its partner Save the Children developed a behavior change intervention program that will engage Malawians to move from knowledge to preventive action; assist stakeholders to move from strategy to coordinated implementation; and, help communities move from the present to a more hopeful future. |
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The PRISM Project is designed to improve reproductive health of Guinean families through increased use of services for family planning, STD/AIDS preventive services, and essential maternal and child health. CCP has developed an adolescent reproductive health campaign that aims to prevent STDs, HIV/AIDS, and unintended pregnancies. The IEC/BCC campaign components include youth-driven, community-based, and mass-media interventions. Mass media and advocacy interventions complement community mobilization activities. In an interactive format, a rural-based community radio program aired the voices of youth and to publicize and cover community events.
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The AIDS Resource Center is the result of a partnership of Ethiopia’s HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Constella Group, Inc., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The center serves as Ethiopia’s premier source of information on the epidemic that is sweeping through the nation of 67 million. The AIDS Resource Center also acts as a hub for a host of resources and services, such as a comprehensive multimedia reference collection, high-speed computer terminals with Internet access, audiovisual equipment, and databases of local and international HIV/AIDS organizations and funding opportunities.
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The Haiti project provides technical assistance services in behavior change communication (BCC), community mobilization, and women’s empowerment. In the area of reproductive health, HS-2004-II is focusing on increased use of and access to services for family planning, HIV/AIDS, STDs, maternal health, and youth. Strengthening NGOs’ capacity for community mobilization interventions, strengthening communities’ capacity to participate in health programs, developing community-based health services, establishing health communities comprise some key community mobilization-focused strategies and activities. During the first phase of the project, CCP supported and provided technical assistance to the Youth Reproductive Health project, which included 3 radio spots, a popular song’s music video, 3 photonovels, and printed materials. |
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CCP provides technical assistance in BCC/IEC, supporting the development and implementation of a national communication strategy and emphasizing advocacy and social mobilization activities to strengthen local-level capacity to plan, implement, and monitor high-quality, accessible health services. The Radio Distance Learning Programme for Community Health Workers project, Working together for better health, has 26 episodes on various child survival, reproductive health, and BCC topics. |
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The Red Ribbon Question Mark HIV Testing Campaign is a comprehensive multimedia campaign developed to encourage testing for HIV. The campaign reaches pregnant women, prenatal care givers, and individuals practicing high risk behaviors such as injecting drug users and men who have sex with men. The campaign focuses on high prevalence areas of Baltimore through transit advertisements, radio, television, brochures, and support from community- and faith-based organizations with testing activities. |
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Maternal and Neonatal Health Project
CCP works with lead JHPIEGO Corp. on the behavior change communication component of this project. Through innovative approaches to information and education, including media, interpersonal communication, and community mobilization, CCP promotes attitudes, knowledge, skills and capacity that advance preparedness for birth and readiness in the event of complications. CCP’s behavior change communication component complements the MNH Program’s service delivery and policy components by facilitating behavioral and normative change at all levels to increase access to, demand for and use of skilled care. Communication strategies are used to guide behavioral and normative change while social mobilization strategies are used to involve all segments of society in dialogue about issues of concern and action to promote changes from the policy to the individual level. BCC promotes raising expectations of quality of care by encouraging clients, communities and providers to express their expectations of care. |
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Working with lead partner JSI, CCP supports the Government of Nepal in its long-term goal of reducing fertility and under-five mortality through the use of information, education, & communication and behavior change interventions to increase demand for family planning and selected maternal and child health services. CCP is focusing on strengthening the capacity of community level providers to deliver quality FP/MCH services and on promoting key FP/MCH behavior change through community-based communication, health education and training interventions. |
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VISION Nigeria
Working with EngenderHealth, CCP is helping USAID to develop a strategic framework, which maximizes the achievement of family planning and reproductive health results in Nigeria, and to establish scalable models of high-impact, high-performing family planning and reproductive health, service delivery networks built upon public-private partnerships in select LGAs in Bauchi State. |
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Voluntary Sector Health Program in Tanzania
Working with CARE International, CCP aims to increase the use of family planning methods, HIV/AIDS preventive measures, and maternal and child health services in Tanzania by providing technical assistance in behavior change communication. The focus is on building NGO partnerships and the capacity of NGOs. |
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Improved Community Health Projects in Liberia
CCP works with lead partner Africare on this program that aims to improve the availability, quality, and reach of primary health care (PHC) and family planning services. The principal focus is at the community level, with timely referral for strengthened services at secondary and tertiary facilities. Strengthening community health outreach is a key component of the program. This includes the training of community-based health workers in delivering basic PCH services, assisting with home-based births and distribution of basic medicines, and providing education to community residents with the goal of increased disease prevention and improved knowledge of health care practices. CCP is working with local NGOs to design mass media and community-based, behavior change communication activities promoting modern health care and family planning.
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