My Piece of Zed: A Novel Adolescent-driven Behaviour Change Communication Strategy to Eliminate Cholera in Zambia 2025
My Piece of Zed is an adolescent focused behavioural intervention, born from locally derived evidence and behaviour science
Abstract
Summary of main points
• Sustained long-term cholera prevention behavioural interventions are urgently required to achieve elimination of cholera in Zambia by the year 2025.
• The authors propose an adolescent focused behavioural intervention titled My Piece of Zed, the first of its kind to be born from locally derived evidence and behaviour science, to improve 3 behaviours proven to be critical to interrupt faecal oral transmission of cholera among household members in both rural and urban Zambia.
• The authors recommend that My Piece of Zed be piloted for national scale-up in order to sustain behaviours that will eliminate cholera in Zambia by the year 2025.
This work was funded by the Department for International Development’s Policy Research Fund
Citation
Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Zambia National Public Health Institute ((2019) My Piece of Zed: A Novel Adolescent-driven Behaviour Change Communication Strategy to Eliminate Cholera in Zambia 2025. Policy Brief
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