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Convening the communication and media (for) development, social and behavioural change community through a social networking and shared knowledge strategy. Focus on health, governance, HIV/AIDS, children, media development, conflict management, environment, rights, disasters, gender and other major Development issues.

"Fostering evidence-based and data-driven approaches for increasing demand..." The Vaccination Demand Hub is a global network of partner organisations working together to understand why people miss out on vaccination, to improve acceptance and uptake of vaccines, and to ensure that people everywhere are protected against vaccine-preventable disease

"In order to design effective immunization and other public health campaigns in areas plagued by armed conflict, one needs a more nuanced understanding of how violence impacts childrens immunization rates." Armed conflicts and other emergencies have for a long time been a concern for human development and public health, particularly in sub-Saharan

"The results shed light on alternative empowerment pathways that could potentially inform the design of transformational interventions." There is a growing recognition that social norms act as structural barriers to progress toward achieving gender equality worldwide.

FRIDAY, Nov. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When preteen children or very young teenagers become pregnant, they face higher rates of complications and a greater risk of winding up in

"You can help turn this into agenda into action!" There is global interest in better understanding and applying social-norms-shifting approaches to improve the reproductive health and wellbeing of adolescents and youth.

"Exploring the value, effect and outcomes of interventions that seek to affect peoples health behaviours...is critical. Only this way can we learn and improve, avoid unintended negative effects, and replicate successful interventions." - Katrine Bach Habersaat, Regional Advisor for Behavioural and Cultural Insights at WHO/Europe

Convening the communication and media (for) development, social and behavioural change community through a social networking and shared knowledge strategy. Focus on health, governance, HIV/AIDS, children, media development, conflict management, environment, rights, disasters, gender and other major Development issues.

"...results should help researchers and policymakers understand online communities associated with vaccine hesitancy and inform solutions for encouraging vaccine uptake." Past research has linked misinformation exposure to vaccine hesitancy, and anti-vaccination viewpoints have been spreading rapidly on social media platforms.

"We cant address peoples concerns if we dont first understand them.