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....
Kupenda for the Children Educates Communities and Transforms Lives
by Hannah Fields, CCIH Communications Coordinator In many areas of the world, people living with a disability are viewed in a negative context, such as being cursed. Because of this, many disabled people, especially children with disabilities, are often abandoned, neglected, or abused. Nonprofit organization Kupenda for the...
Will Global Health Become More, or Less, Global?
by Doug Fountain, CCIH Executive Director At the recent Rising Tides conference put on by Helping Children Worldwide, I had the privilege to give a talk about what’s changing in global health. I titled the talk, “Will Global Health Become More, or Less, Global?” Two-thirds of the way...
Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health
Stories of Impact: Bringing Family Planning Services to Underserved Communities
By Deirdre Church, CCIH Program Coordinator Through the SCOPE project, CCIH partnered with three dynamic local organizations to fight maternal and child morbidity and mortality in underserved communities in Kenya, Malawi, and South Sudan. SCOPE, or Strengthening Community Outcomes Through Positive Engagement, is a 5-year project, from 2019-2024,...