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"Misconceptions about the vaccine are the main driving force behind vaccine refusals in the study setting.

The Heart of Texas Behavioral Health Network with its Klaras Center for Families announced an award of $1.1 million granted by Texas health officials.

"Health promotion and communication targeting family planning are essential in the region as this is still an area of high unmet family planning need and endemic ZIKV."

"...evidence-driven communication strategies to help vaccinate every child." The Polio Toolkit, a web-based repository of social and behaviour change (SBC) resources, is designed to improve sharing of information, SBC guidance, and learnings between the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), local partners, organisations, and frontline workers

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) invites applications from African scholars to fill the vacant position of Senior Programme Officer (Research) in its pan-African Secretariat located in Dakar, Senegal.

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.

According to the Uganda Aids Commission there are plans to reduce youth and adult HIV infections by 65 percent and paediatric infections by 95 percent by 2025

Now, please tell me that you loved brian and charles. yes, i did, actually. a couple of hesitations maybe about wasnt sure how to end it, but fundamentally, i really liked it. there were lots of us in the cinema, everyone was laughing out loud. and thats interesting, because a lot of it is very funny, but its also really touching. the opening sequence is literally just about loneliness, and itjust broke me, broke me. its really poignant. ok, that for me is the genius of it. i mean, yes, its a st...

Out of the washing machine and a mannequin�*s head. why? because hes lonely. because hes living on his own in his inventing shed in which hes inventing all these crazy things. and then he almost accidentally builds his best friend — and then doesnt quite know how to deal with the best friend growing up. my favourite stuff was when the robot charles becomes an adolescent and says, "im going to sit in the front of the car." "no, youre not." "yes, i am. front, front, front!" i mean, ithought al...

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