… Engaging Families for a Healthy Pregnancy This report is a focused desk review of the Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors related to pregnancies in three high-risk situations: Advanced maternal age, high parity, and rapid repeat pregnancies after abortion or miscarriage. Promouvoir la Participation des Familles pour des Grossesses Saines (en français) …
Increasingly, the world’s youth are growing up in, or moving to, urban environments. Cities and urban settings present youth with unique challenges and opportunities to pursuing a healthy and fulfilling life. While urban areas often have more infrastructure, schools, jobs and services than do rural environments, not all youth have access to these assets. Consequently, health behaviors and outcomes are affected. In 2013, HC3 conducted a literature…
Influencing the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Urban Youth through Social and Behavior Change Communication A Literature Review: Executive Summary This document summarizes findings from Influencing the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Urban Youth through Social and Behavior Change Communication, a literature review and program scan of peer-reviewed and grey literature on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents and youth in urban a…
… This review synthesizes diverse work from low- and middle-income countries as part of a larger effort to demonstrate the ways in which compositional and contextual community-level factors have been defined and assessed in work on HIV/AIDS. Impact of Community-Level Factors on HIV Prevention Outcomes …
Blended learning, or the use of a variety of media and learning environments to achieve mastery and application of knowledge and skills, is increasingly being used to build capacity in middle- and low-income countries. However, few studies have examined the use of blended learning to build the capacity of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) professionals. The aim of this literature review is to determine promising practices for utiliz…
… Promouvoir la Participation des Familles pour des Grossesses Saines …
This report reviews, assesses and synthesizes the current evidence of social and behavioral drivers of demand generation for the 13 commodities, as well as effective practices in implementing demand generation programs. This review aims to provide a foundation for future evidence-based demand generation programming and activities, with a focus on helping others to better understand the facilitating factors and barriers to utilization and generati…
The purpose of this desk review is to identify promising SBCC practices related to malaria case management at both community and service provider levels in the four focus countries: Zambia, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Senegal. Case management of malaria has undergone profound changes over the years since the introduction and widespread use of rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). Recent years have seen the evo…
Social and behavior change communication (SBCC), which uses communication to positively influence the social dimensions of health and well-being, is an important strategy for improving health services at the provider level. As community health workers (CHWs) play an increasingly important role in providing health services, there is also an increasing focus on to how to use SBCC strategies to build CHWs’ capacity to offer quality services to the c…
… The focus of this report is to understand the family planning context in Northern Nigeria through a literature review. It will also assess changes in modern contraceptive use in Bauchi and Sokoto States between 2009 and 2014 using household survey and facility-level data, and contextualize the quantitative findings with a qualitative study. Assessment of Family Planning Use in Bauchi and Sokoto States, Nigeria …
Social and behavior change communication (SBCC), which uses communication to positively influence the social dimensions of health and well-being, is an important strategy for improving health services at the provider level. With much of the responsibility for providing health care services falling on a cadre of professional health care workers (HCWs), particularly those in lower level facilities, there is an increasing focus on to how to use SBCC…
Social and behavior change considerations for areas transitioning from high and moderate to low, very low and zero malaria transmissionJanuary 18, 2018 - 10:11 am
Smart Client and Smart Couple: Digital Health Tools to Empower Women and Couples for Family PlanningOctober 19, 2017 - 4:15 pm
Celebrating the Seeds of Change in GuatemalaSeptember 26, 2017 - 3:19 pm
HC3 Nigeria’s Chizoba Onyechi Named as 120 Under 40 Family Planning ChampionSeptember 12, 2017 - 12:54 pm
HC3 Côte d’Ivoire and Partners Celebrate their SuccessesSeptember 5, 2017 - 12:09 pm