All eyes are on the 24-team Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), a month-long soccer tournament bringing together the continent’s top national men's teams, which kicked off in Cote d’Ivoire on Jan....
Almost all the bed nets on the commercial market in Tanzania, designed to protect sleeping people from malaria-infected mosquitoes, are not treated with a long-lasting insecticide, a crucial comp...
During a USAID-funded project in Tanzania that ended in 2016, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs created an internship program in social and behavior change communication (SBC) t...
Douglas Storey, an international leader in the field of communication science, a popular professor and a prolific researcher who has been with the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs ...
Despite public health officials’ understanding that regular handwashing with soap and water can reduce the spread of COVID-19, handwashing rates fell during the pandemic across 10 sub-Saharan c...
USAID and its U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative have awarded the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs a five-year, $40-million contract to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito n...
Current interventions in place to protect people from malaria – most notably insecticide-treated mosquito nets and indoor spraying – work well, but new research from the Johns Hopkins Center ...
In some parts of Africa, insecticide-treated mosquito nets designed to prevent malaria lose their effectiveness or are too torn to be protective after just two years, while in others they can las...
An ambitious Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs proposal to easily bring eyeglasses to people who need them in four African countries has been named one of the Top 100 projects in a...
Over the past five years, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs has helped deliver 55 million insecticide-treated bed nets, initiated a game-changing new way to distribute them mor...