Please join us if you are available.
Insights for improving malaria, family planning, and maternal and child health outcomes in northwestern Nigeria through social and behavior change programming
Breakthrough RESEARCH webinar series
SICK CHILD CARE-SEEKING AND TREATMENT
3 September 2020
4-5 p.m. WAT │ 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EDT
REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zwzWkyZdRXmsVHZvvf5XZQ
In this webinar, Breakthrough RESEARCH will share findings from its work in northwestern Nigeria related to care-seeking and treatment practices for diarrhea, fever, and acute respiratory infections among young children. We will present new ideational metrics collected and discuss how these metrics are associated with care-seeking and treatment behaviors for sick children under 2 years old. Breakthrough ACTION will present key program design to address sick child care-seeking and treatment and the programmatic implications of the research.
Breakthrough RESEARCH is USAID’s flagship project for social and behavior change (SBC) research and evaluation, led by the Population Council. In Nigeria, Breakthrough RESEARCH is evaluating the effectiveness of Breakthrough ACTION’s integrated versus malaria-only SBC programming on priority malaria, family planning, and maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (MNCH+N) outcomes.
A behavioral sentinel surveillance (BSS) baseline survey was conducted in September 2019, with a midline and endline survey planned. The BSS survey measures changes in key behaviors and ideations (e.g., norms, beliefs, self-efficacy) across malaria, family planning, and MNCH+N to inform Breakthrough ACTION’s program adaption and scale-up over the course of the project.
Presenters:
Dele Abegunde, Breakthrough RESEARCH Nigeria, Population Council
Shittu Abdu-Aguye, Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria, Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Project
Emily White Johansson, Breakthrough RESEARCH Nigeria, Tulane University
Paul Hutchinson, Breakthrough RESEARCH, Tulane University
Upcoming webinars will be focused on other specific health areas, including malaria, and family planning, among others. These webinars will highlight results from analyses of the relationships between ideations and behavioral outcomes and link the evidence to implications for Breakthrough ACTION programming in Nigeria.
Previous webinars in this series can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbrF5LQrpysY1i0HW0g5PNl7opOR40DxC
Cheers,
S
CHIFA profile: Sherry Hutchinson is Communications Staff Associate at the Population Council in the USA. Professional interests: HIV and AIDS, Communications, Knowledge Management. shutchinson AT popcouncil.org
