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2022 SBCC Summit - PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS  A few very personal, initial, and immediate impressions of the 2022 Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit, held in Marrakech, Morocco, December 5-9 2022, follow. The CIs Warren Feek has shared them here for your reaction and addition.

"The risks that online harassment poses to the free flow of information, press freedom, and the democratic exchange of ideas demand an urgent response." This guide outlines steps and measures that newsrooms and journalists in West Africa can take to mitigate the problem of online abuse - a threat facing journalism today that has the potential to er

"The study aligns with GPEI [Global Polio Eradication Initiative] strategies to undertake evidence-based polio vaccine promotion and to place human behavior in the center to fight polio..." Although Ghana has not experienced circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus 2 (cVDPV2) outbreaks since 2021, the country remains vulnerable to reinfection and acc

"Increasing womens agency and empowering women with skills and resources will have a legacy and bring broader positive impacts in communities beyond polio eradication."

2022 SBCC Summit - PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS  A few very personal, initial, and immediate impressions of the 2022 Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit, held in Marrakech, Morocco, December 5-9 2022, follow. The CIs Warren Feek has shared them here for your reaction and addition.

"In the coming years, more journalists than ever will be needed to report on our deteriorating environment.

"One of the greatest strengths of the CSC process may be that it helps build understanding and a stronger, more trusting relationship between the health system and the community.

"According to the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), women make up only 25% of the persons heard, read about or seen in newspaper, television and radio news..." This Learning Brief seeks to summarise key issues, evidence, and trends around media and gender and offers a number of possible solutions to the key challenges currently faced by

"[L]arge-scale national social cash transfer programs with poverty alleviation objectives may have potential positive spillover benefits in terms of reducing HIV risk among young people in Eastern and Southern Africa." Interventions to delay sexual debut have been an important part of the HIV prevention strategy in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to t

"Online violence against women journalists is one of the most serious contemporary threats to press freedom internationally." This report, published by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), presents the results of a global study on online violence against women journalists, documenting trends and offering solutions.