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Save the Children Consultant Scope of Work Agency for All: Early Childbearing and SBC in Bangladesh Period of Engagement We anticipate the consultancy will take approximately 40 days over the period of 9 months starting at the end of September/early October 2022. Project Description/Background

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that not getting enough sleep may doom adolescents and teens to obesity and poorer health as they enter adulthood.

"Media studies are important for vaccine hesitancy research, as they analyze how the media shapes risk perceptions and vaccine uptake." The proliferation of academic studies analysing social media to better understand vaccine hesitancy is due in part to the growing number of media platforms but also to parallel advances in computing and analysis to

"The right to seek, access and receive information is a fundamental human right enshrined in several international and national normative frameworks." This manual, commissioned by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), seeks to educate the public on the Right to Access Information (RAI) Act of Sierra Leone.

"...taken together, the findings demonstrate the central role of the campaign in driving change over time..." In Tanzania, an estimated 32% of children under five suffer from stunting.

"In low resource settings, bridging online engagement with participatory on-ground activities amplifies community voices and experiences resulting in increased public interest in health topics and an uptake in vaccines." Just under half of the world population use social networks.

"...understanding nuances of vaccination acceptance or vaccine demand insights and the underlining drivers in resource-low settings such as...Malawi, where there had been dearth of evidence-based findings for policy actions." Vaccine hesitancy is one reason for difficulties with maximising vaccination uptake in Malawi.

"The preponderance of evidence characterizing effective behavior change techniques using digital interventions has been collected by focusing on residents of high-income countries." With a wide reach and worldwide omnipresence, social media platforms - including Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, WeChat, and others - have been of increasing interest in th

"Programs designed to increase levels of HIV testing should ensure they reach the populations most in need." KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province is a major epicentre of the South African HIV epidemic. It is home to large informal settlements that pose unique challenges and barriers in terms of accessing HIV services and care.

"While it is challenging to measure behavior change, this is a critical undertaking to track progress and understand why and how change happens to inform current and future projects." Developed by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank Group, this mapping tool aims to helps users plan and track behaviour change efforts to improve