A woman is tested and treated for malaria with her new baby at a health center in UgandaUSAID

Integrating Gender Into the COVID-19 RCCE Response

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This brief makes recommendations on integrating gender into COVID-19 risk communication and community engagement efforts.
An informal worker, carries out important surveys in her neighborhood in Gujarat, IndiaPaula Bronstein/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

Disrupting COVID-19 Stigma

This guide includes considerations and resources to support country programs in identifying and reducing stigma around COVID-19.
Coronavirus

Dealing with the worldwide panic about Coronavirus: Providing advice, fighting stigma, dispelling information

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This blog post introduces social and behavior change resources on the Compass website that will help health professionals respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zika implementing partners participate in a share fair to discuss community engagement in the USAID Zika responseK4Health

Breakthrough ACTION + RESEARCH Resources from the USAID Zika Response

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This blog post introduces a suite of tools to help social and behavior change practitioners identify priority behaviors when responding to epidemics like Zika.
Volunteers from the Red Cross in El Salvador engage in participatory trainings to strengthen their interpersonal communication skillsSean Maloney/Breakthough ACTION

Cutting through the confusion: Prioritizing behavioral messages and calls to action

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This blog post describes how promoting a harmonized set of behaviors during epidemics like Zika improves the likelihood of behavior adoption.
Breakthrough ACTION staff engage with local researchers in the Dominican Republic during a participatory data analysis workshopAnne Ballard Sara/Breakthrough ACTION

Richer and Faster Data Analysis to Inform SBC Zika Program Design in an Outbreak

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Breakthrough ACTION used a participatory data analysis process in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador to gather insights on Zika prevention behaviors.
Close up of an Aedes aegypti mosquito resting on the leafPoravute/Getty Images

Zika’s Silent Threat: Prioritized Behaviors Are Key to Preventing Future Outbreaks of Aedes Aegypti-Borne Diseases

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Breakthrough ACTION + RESEARCH identified a set of behaviors that have the greatest potential to prevent Zika’s transmission.
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Preventing Zika in Latin America and the Caribbean

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These briefs and articles contain findings and lessons learned gleaned from studies on the behavioral aspects of Zika virus prevention.