Malaria Consortium attends first SBCC summit held in Addis Ababa

Malaria Consortium is attending the first International Summit on Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) from February 8-10 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference will bring together leading experts of the SBCC approach, which applies communication strategies to promote health and wellbeing. Participants will share results, lessons learnt and come up with innovative ideas for overcoming challenges.

Two Malaria Consortium staff are presenting at panel sessions to talk about our SBCC work in Africa. These include:

• Daudi Ochieng, Communications Manager – Community dialogues for child health: results from a qualitative process evaluation in three countries
• Daudi Ochieng, Communications Manager – Using SBCC to create demand for mosquito nets in the private sector: the case of the Malaria Control Culture Project in Uganda
• Dr Julian J Atim, Project Manager of the Tororo Project – Using SBCC to create a malaria control culture: A Uganda case study

You can also follow the conversation on the summit website.