November 15, 2012 - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched three mobile phone games through its public-private partnership with the Half the Sky Movement.

November 9, 2012 - The RBM Communication Community of Practice (CoP) had its first official meeting on November 7, 2012 in Maputo, Mozambique to map out a 2013-2014 workplan aimed at enhancing the role of social and behavior change communication (SBCC) in the fight against malaria.

October 26, 2012 - Growing out of experiences of creating and adapting communication materials for audiences with lower literacy skills, including difficulty reading, C-Change developed the C-Bulletin series.

C-Change collaborated with Kenya’s Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) in the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MoPHS) from May 2011 to July 2012 on a qualitative research study to understand fear-related obstacles in the uptake and continued use of modern contraception, as well a

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Tanzania’s Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi, announced the launch of the Strategic Framework for countries’ malaria control efforts, at the Roll Back Malaria East African Sub-regional Network (EARN) meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, on September 5:

Kenya’s Head of the Division of Disease Control and Prevention Dr Willis Akhwale and Division of Malaria Control (DOMC) Program Manager David Soti opened the meeting in Nairobi on August 23 to disseminate the Essential Malaria Actions Guide for Kenyan Families.

C-Change technical staff participated in panels and poster presentations during the AIDS 2012 conference held in Washington, DC, July 22-27, 2012. They included:

USAID/Guatemala’s Senior Technical Advisor in the Health and Education Office, Isabel Stout, opened the C-Change dissemination meeting in Guatemala City, Guatemala on July 12, 2012.