Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition
World Renew Launches MNCH How-To Guide Thanks to CCIH Small Grant
CCIH member World Renew developed a user-friendly guide on community-based programming for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and nutrition for staff who are not health experts with the support of a CCIH 2022 Small Grant. “A practitioner’s manual for staff has been a dream of many of...
Vaccine Hesitancy and How the Faith Community Can Help
World Immunization Week is an ideal time to celebrate this life-saving intervention and take stock of what we learned from COVID vaccine hesitancy. The challenge public health officials faced with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance may have raised the profile of vaccine hesitancy, but it is not a new phenomenon....
Advocacy, Connector Articles, Family Planning
Advocacy Project Tapped Into the Power of Faith Leaders as Health Influencers
The Christian Advocacy for Family Planning in Africa (CAFPA) project came to a close in December 2021 after seven years. The project, which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leveraged the talent, commitment, influence and connections of faith leaders to drive change and build support...
COVID-19 Check in with CCIH Affiliate MUSUHUM in Niger and Benin
We checked in with Dr. Stachys Hounkpatin, Program Officer with CCIH affiliate Mouvement Universel pour la Survie de l’Humanité, working in Niger and Benin, for an update on their response to COVID-19. We understand MUSUHUM (Mouvement Universel pour la Survie de l’Humanité) has two clinics in Niger, what...