Boys who participated had more positive attitudes toward women and were twice as likely to intervene in case of witnessing verbal, physical and sexual violence. More positive attitudes predicted boys’ intervention in the case of witnessing gender-based violence.

The program increased vaccination uptake through an invitation card that reminds caregivers about their child’s immunization needs and schedule in a positive way. The review found that a celebration card is suitable for its purpose and acceptable to both healthcare professionals and to caregivers.

Health care providers, pregnant woman and families designed simple tools together to address key barriers to facility based childbirth.

The campaign evaluation found a nine percent increase in reported account ownership among low-income women who viewed the media and materials.

When foods were labeled with the traffic light colors, more people identified nutrition as an important factor in their purchase and looked at the nutrition information. Respondents who noticed labels during the intervention and reported that labels influenced their purchases were more likely to purchase healthier items than respondents who did not notice labels.

Post assessments showed significant reductions in severity of trauma symptoms. Results also support the effectiveness of implementation strategies such as task shifting, and the apprenticeship model of training and supervision.

Current use of two methods of contraceptives increased among young women with children: male condom and combined oral pill use; but among young men only their partners’ use of oral pills increased. Knowledge increased among both young women and young men, whether or not they already had children following exposure to the SMS intervention. The SMS had no effect on young people's confidence or self-efficacy to perform contraception-related tasks. 

The new product concept requires less water and 94-99% less soap than any other handwashing system available in the local market. It also provides approximately 15,000 handwashes per $1 of soap compared to as few as 500 handwashes with conventional systems.

Intervention sites showed 83% higher odd of total ECD composite score (cognitive, language, motor) compared to children in the control sites. Children of participating caregivers had greater diet diversity and early learning support than controls. However, no change was found in positive discipline, or nutritional status.

The injectable discontinuation rate in 12 months was 10.8 percentage‐points lower among the intervention area participants than among those in the control area.

In program areas where community health workers received coaching and performance incentives, 70% of children (6-59 months) adhered to micronutrient powder use.

An RCT showed that households that received the intervention were significantly more likely to have cleaner latrines than households that did not, that people’s hands, especially the finger pads, were cleaner if they used toilets in the intervention area compared to the control area.

Facility records showed that cervical cancer screening rates increased five-fold over the same period in the previous year. Most women who participated in an education session had seen the story-telling cloth, and the vast majority was able to accurately identify the imagery. They felt positive toward accepting the vaccine for themselves and their daughters when it is available in Mali.

For people with traumatic experiences such as stillbirths, facilitating space and opportunities for them to get peer support and sharing their stories can lead to relief and recovery. Personal testimonials from parents, providers, scientists, policy-makers or global health stakeholders can also help the larger community better understand the situation and increase acceptance and support.

A qualitative review in three countries (Zambia, Mozambique and Uganda) indicated that community dialogues helped build cooperation within communities, change social norms related to sick child care-seeking and increase uptake of iCCM, thus improving care-seeking for childhood illnesses.

Health worker compliance in Bangladesh with recommended counseling practice was significantly associated with exclusive breastfeeding and marginally associated with minimum dietary diversity.

At baseline, handwashing with soap at critical moments was only 1% in intervention and 2% in control groups. At 6-week follow-up, handwashing with soap at any of the critical moments rose to 19% in the intervention group versus 4% in the control group, a difference of 15 percentage points (p=0.005). At 6-month follow-up, the proportion of those handwashing with soap at any of the critical moments was 37% in the intervention group and 6% in the control group, a difference of 31 percentage points (p=0.002). The short intervention implemented in the control groups after the end of the intervention had the same effect on handwashing behaviors as the longer intervention.

Health integration into self-help groups demonstrated the positive effects of peer support, networking, and cohesion in achieving increases in newborn care practices among marginalized young mothers. The proportion of women receiving health information from their self-help group members increased significantly in intervention groups.  The net increase for timely initiation of breastfeeding and delayed bathing was 20 percentage points (p<0.05), and age appropriate immunization among children under one year showed a consistent increase over time with a difference-in-difference of 9 percentage points.  

The neonatal mortality rate during this period was 30 per 1000 livebirths in the intervention group and 44 per 1000 livebirths in the control group with an odds ratio of 0.60.  Including this study, a meta-analysis of participatory women’s groups found an overall 22% reduction in neonatal mortality.

Trained parents were four times more likely to accept family planning services for their adolescent children.

The program worked with 12 industries, representing 6,785 employees (5,947 men and 838 women).  Reaching them through the employers lends credibility. Uptake was highest in larger firms with champions for health programs.  

Ongoing research (as of June 2018) aims to assess a variety of factors, including changes in knowledge, gaps to emphasize during patient monitoring visits, and assess the increase in health service utilization and request for services to reduce pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.

Advocacy and communications that do not barrage people with facts and fears, but instead fosters discussion through trusted messengers, often people not traditionally engaged in the issue, and locally meaningful discussions and concrete actions can move people toward curiosity and resolve, and thus behavior change.

The food processor owner is making progress toward full certification of the national bureau of standards which will help to diversity products further.

The review found evidence that some of the measures implemented to help people drink fewer SSBs have been successful, including the labels which are easy to understand, limits to the availability of sugar-sweetened beverages overall and through food benefits, price increases in restaurants, stores and leisure centers, and promote healthier beverages in supermarkets and conduct community campaigns. Ensure availability of low-calorie beverages at home.

The evaluation found significant improvements in some behaviors including early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, minimum meal frequency and minimum dietary diversity. Results showed a dose-response relationship for dietary diversity, meal frequency and minimum acceptable diet. Health post visits were associated with greater early initiation of breastfeeding while three or more home visits was associated with improved complementary feeding behaviors. Caregivers exposed to four or more communication channels were more likely to achieve a minimum dietary diversity and minimum acceptable diet.

Technology specific variables (e.g. yield potential and acceptability) are associated with greater adoption of the behavior. The findings call for increased emphasis on sharing information, field demonstration, and farmers’ participatory research and training programs to popularize new inputs as well as offer more choices in varieties. Such programs ultimately help farmers develop more profit-oriented behavior which are necessary to reach long-term goals.

The research found that feedback was most effective when it was framed in terms of losses, and that a lower frequency of feedback does not reduce efficiency.

On-site training led to large increases in the number of providers with acceptable levels of knowledge and skills performance in family planning provision. There was also an increase in the number of new voluntary acceptors for family planning without substantial disruption of routine services. 

In Kenya, where this digital technology platform is offered, called M-TIBA, low and middle -income Kenyans are now able to pay for and access healthcare. Most had previously been excluded from health insurance schemes. M-TIBA now has 1.4 million users and is growing by thousands of new users and insurance policies a day. This digital technology is providing long-term benefits to individual patients and the entire healthcare sector by gathering enrollment, financial and medical data and sharing with key stakeholders in customized dashboards and reports.

Adolescents in three schools who participated reported new perceptions and preferences, including adding more nutritious foods (such as fruits and vegetables) into their diet and engaging in more physical activity. The findings suggest that gamification of nutrition can lead to improve dietary behavior among adolescents in the short term.  More studies are needed to evaluate the long-term effects of nutrition interventions that use gamification techniques.

Reminder messages led to a 30 percent increase in voter participation.

Grandmothers’ correct knowledge on infant and young child feeding translated into mothers’ correct knowledge and optimal practices.

Two-thirds of participants said that group phone worked well or very well. Women who met with their groups regularly had higher odds of exclusive breastfeeding than women who did not meet with their group. Many said that they trusted the information from the phone and some felt more social support to practice exclusive breastfeeding.

By engaging fathers-to-be through simple, free text messages that provide information, fathers built their own knowledge base and shared the information and reminders with their wives.  Many fathers also took action to help their wives and better care for their child as a couple.

Results show lower time and costs for the health care system, freeing up resources to strengthen the health system, and TB drug adherence comparable or even higher than in person visits.  In a study in California, US and Mexico, 93% and 96% of patients, respectively, adhered to their drug regimens while using video monitoring over an average of 5.5 months, comparable to those of patients monitored through in-person therapy.

In an initial study, 91% of mothers said the bracelets helped to remind them of their child’s vaccination dates. Of the mothers who used the bracelets in the initial study, 90% said they would continue using the bracelets and 87% said they would recommend them to other mothers. This intervention is currently in phase two testing, but offers potential in raising immunization rates.

Results showed 100% reductions in all the bacterial counts in the samples collected after 3 months in the second and third feedings of the observed study households but highest in homes with observations by field workers.  Reheating of food for the second and third feedings played an important role in reducing contamination in this context. Three months after the intervention, mothers maintained the hygiene of children’s complementary food.

Impact: Children of mothers who received three home visits to discuss breastfeeding and complementary feeding were 10% better nourished than children of mothers who did not receive the intervention, in a setting without resource constraints to complementary food.

In communities reached by the program, current use of any modern contraceptive method increased from 18.3% to 43.2%. Among all modern methods available, use of intrauterine devices (IUD) increased from 1.9% to 13.7%, of which, 76.4% were inserted by franchise providers.

In urban Uganda, FSWs engaged in safer sex with clients when they perceived that they themselves were not living with HIV.  Knowledge of HIV‐negative status was associated with an increase in consistent condom use by 9.5 percentage points, while knowledge of HIV‐positive status was not associated with a significant change in consistent condom use (2.5 percentage points). Even in communities with high HIV prevalence, the majority of the population will test HIV‐negative. This suggests that HIV testing serves as a behavioral HIV prevention measure among female sex workers.

Surveys in seven countries found that the app was effectively marketed through social media campaigns. The app expands access to and choice of a modern method; over 33% of women surveyed who were using the CycleBead app reported that they had not been using a method during the 3 months prior to download.

The review shows that maternity leave could support a longer breastfeeding duration, especially for women in more vulnerable jobs. 

The proportion of women who reported being “very satisfied” with their delivery experience increased from 12.9% at baseline to 75.8% after the intervention. Women who reported that the level of respectful care they received was “excellent” increased from 0% to 22.8%. Women who rated the quality of care as “excellent” and “very good” increased from 0% to 22.8% and 2.9% to 40.3%, respectively.

Launched in 2014, registrations averaged about 7,334 women per week nationwide, or 39 % of women attending their first antenatal care visits. South Africa is expanding MomConnect to reach nurses and midwives with educational and motivational information, and to provide additional targeted support to mothers living with HIV.

Prenatal enrolment in community-based programs working on child nutrition can improve exclusive breastfeeding practices, with an adjusted odds ratio of 1.55.

Knowledge of danger signs related to pregnancy, delivery, and newborn illness significantly increased in intervention compared to control areas. In addition, the program led to increased utilization of antenatal care and iron-folate supplementation. The findings from this quasi-experimental study demonstrate the ability of civil society organizations with little health programming experience to increase knowledge and promote healthy behaviors among pregnant women and newborns by engaging women’s social network and communities.

Participating mothers were less likely to have a low body mass index (BMI). In addition, their children were less likely to be malnourished compared to those living in villages that did not have the program:  anemia in 3-6 month old infants decreased by 15 percentage points, wasting in children 3-12 months old decreased by 9 percentage points; and diarrhea reduced by up to 16 percentage points. Mothers also experienced improved social status and increased likelihood to participate in household decision-making for things such as healthcare and new purchases.

Consumers heeded the warning labels to varying degrees, but most observed that their children, particularly the youngest, gained more positive attitudes toward the regulation and have become promoters of change in their families. This information contributes to better understand how regulatory actions may influence people’s consumer behaviors.

Adult mentors, equipped with a basic training, effectively reduced stigma, maltreatment and abuse, as well as risky sexual contacts, among vulnerable youth-headed households.

Integrating active case finding for TB within an OVC program led to greater careseeking, in comparison to broader targeting.

By September 2018 over 67,000 women had been seen at least once, for 194,000 clinic visits (24,000 clinic visits in one year). As service provision is scaled up, so is the number of women reached. The proportion of young women has increased since the development of the “Young Sisters” program in 2014 supported by teen peer educators.  Increasing coverage and intensity of service delivery by strengthening community involvement and empowerment alongside increasing numbers of program staff led to increases in coverage, HIV status awareness and uptake and optimal use of treatment.

Through Farmer Nutrition Schools for poor women farmers, women’s dietary diversity score significantly increased from 3.9 to 6.0 out of 10, and was sustained over time.

The evaluation found a significant protective effect on stunting; while more children were stunted in control areas by the end of the intervention, there was no increase in stunting among children in intervention areas.

When implemented with efforts to improve community health worker programming, among other indicators, the Community Scorecard intervention increased community health worker visits to women during pregnancy by 20% and during the postnatal period by 6%, and women’s satisfaction with reproductive health services increased significantly, compared with control areas. 

The findings showed that community-owned ECD centers can be an effective platform to deliver agriculture and nutrition interventions and achieve improvements in household production and consumption, maternal knowledge of child nutrition, and preschool children's diets while also benefiting their younger siblings’ dietary diversity and linear growth. Younger siblings in the intervention group had significantly greater increases in height-for-age than children in the control group and greater reductions in the prevalence of stunting.

Women who received screening and referrals from CHWs were more likely to complete referrals and report improved health behaviors as a result of feedback from CHWs.

Now used in 11 countries, hygiene communication for children is delivered through Sesame Street programs and characters.  Ministries of health and educators have also adopted the school-based curriculum.