Entries by Lisa Mwaikambo |CCP, eLearning Coordinator & KM Officer

What Does Behavior Change Have to do with World Health Day?

This past Monday, we celebrated World Health Day, which focused on combating the global threat of vector-borne diseases. According to the World Health Organization, more than one billion people are infected and more than one million die every year from vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue, Lyme disease, and yellow fever. WHO produced the following […]

Behavior Change Communication: A Requirement for Effective Health Programming

Most if not all health interventions require an element of behavior change. As noted in Dr. Jim Shelton’s August 2013 editorial  “The 6 domains of behavior change: the missing health system building block” in the Global Health: Science and Practice Journal, 15 of the top 20 health risk factors in sub-Saharan Africa are predominantly behavioral, and […]