Advocacy Project Tapped Into the Power of Faith Leaders as Health Influencers


January 1, 2022

A blog post about the Christian Advocacy for Family Planning in Africa (CAFPA) project, which 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...

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CCIH Statement on Standards for Short-term Medical Missions


November 14, 2021

Short-Term Medical Missions (STMM) can provide much-needed care to a community and help strengthen capacity of local providers, and are often provided in emergency response or in long-term development situations. Unfortunately, too many well-intentioned STMM projects are designed and executed in ways that do not plan for sustained...

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Respectful Maternity Care and Maternal Mental Health are Inextricably Linked


January 5, 2021

This article explores the connections between respectful maternity care and maternal mental health outcomes. It originally appeared on the Wilson Center’s Dot-Mom column.

by Kathy Erb

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“Church Leaders Helping to Boost Family Planning” by Reverend Samuel Njung’e and Reverend Samuel Wainaina


January 1, 2021

Two Reverends from Murang’a County Kenya share about the work of church leaders in family planning in The Standard, a Kenyan newspaper.

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