Building on years of experience, Gillespie Communication is equipping non-profit teams around the world with enhanced advocacy skills and strategic plans for their advocacy work. Drawing from the...
Home-Based Treatment of Malaria in Kenya
Malaria is the #1 killer of children in Kenya, and many of those kids die because treatment is simply unavailable in rural villages. The Kenya Red Cross Society and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation in Kenya launched a project to address this challenge. Through home-based treatment of malaria by trained Red Cross volunteers,...
Collaboration Reduces Malaria Burden in Ethiopia
In recent years, the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia has led a multifaceted campaign to reduce malaria deaths nationwide. With funding from the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, these efforts have halved the disease burden through distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, indoor spraying with...
Promoting Healthy Youth in Northern Nigeria
The Ku Saurara! project used entertainment education and advocacy to empower a generation of young people toward positive reproductive health behaviors. Tackling subjects like family planning, which were once considered taboo in northern Nigeria, Ku Saurara! galvanized government, community and religious leaders to support...
Haiti Earthquake Aftermath
Glimpse inside the massive Red Cross relief effort which followed the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and continues even today. In a truly collaborative effort, international Red Cross partners from around the world provided water, shelter, medical care, sanitation, relief supplies and more to millions of earthquake survivors across the...
Measles Initiative Campaigns
Before global health leaders formed the Measles Initiative in 2001, more than 750,000 children worldwide died from measles each year, particularly in developing countries. Measles is a highly-contagious virus, spread by contact with an infected person through coughing and sneezing. The Measles Initiative emphasized mass vaccination campaigns...
Fighting Malaria in Tanzania
Like many nations in sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania grapples with an immense burden of malaria. More than 90 percent of the population on the Mainland and all 1.2 million people on Zanzibar are at risk for malaria. Annual malaria deaths in Tanzania are estimated to be 60,000, with 80 percent of these deaths among children under the age of five....