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"Great opportunity exists to improve both the quantity and quality of documented capacity assessment for SBCC." Social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) in the international health context uses approaches such as mass media, social media, digital communication, community-level activities, interpersonal communication, and advocacy to influen

"...to achieve any meaningful success in a community level programme, identifying and engaging its key decision makers throughout is vital."

"Health authorities and others responsible for communicating health information to the public should reflect carefully on the purpose of the information they communicate to the public - whether it is intended primarily to persuade people or to inform them." Much health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic was designed to persuade people to ta

"Few articles have focused on the adolescent perspective although adolescents involvement in the vaccine decision-making process could reinforce their vaccine confidence..."

"...ideations like knowledge (cognitive), beliefs (cognitive), self-efficacy (emotional) and social influence (social) under the cognitive, emotional and social ideational dimensions provide significant insights for SBC [social and behaviour change] programs and policy makers to improve health behaviors around breastfeeding practices..."

"I used to face hatred because my child was diagnosed with HIV, but now things have changed; people in the village have learned that HIV doesnt spread when kids play together." – Mother, Village Thango Khan Bozdar

"...vaccine associations - especially those related to helpfulness/harmfulness - may serve as psychological building blocks for parental vaccine beliefs and behaviors." A movement of parents refusing vaccines for their children has contributed to increasingly large outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in countries such as the United Sta

"...offer insights on the underlying causes of low vaccination coverage in Ukraine and have implications for efforts to promote immunisation in refugee populations..."

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.

Hi - four opportunities that have recently flowed from the network and a reminder of the high quality direct impact data: