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  • Primary Health Centre Renovations Revitalise Community Healthcare in Ogun State

    Ibukun Oguntola

    February 13, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ogun State

    To help strengthen the primary healthcare system, the government has set out to establish at least one functional health center in each ward throughout the state. The renovation project has also involved the community in the planning to ensure these new centers are well-equipped to meet each community’s specific needs. As of August of last year, the project has renovated 63 out of the 236 targeted health centers.

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  • Contested community college degree programs help fill job training gaps, ease student debt

    Naina Rao

    February 13, 2023 |

    AfroLA |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A pilot program in California allows community colleges to offer bachelor's degrees programs in areas such as health information management and interaction design. In 2016-17, nearly three quarters of graduates from the pilot degree programs finished their studies without taking any loans, and about 80 percent found work within three months of graduating.

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  • Mississippi Evangelicals Prepare to Welcome Dobbs Babies

    Adam MacInnis

    February 13, 2023 |

    Christianity Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Embrace Grace is a 12-week program that supports single parents and women facing unplanned pregnancies and works to coach churches to be more accepting and open their doors and their hearts to those in need, specifically in the wake of the Dobbs. V. Jackson and Roe v. Wade overturn. There are currently about 20 churches across the state involved in the program.

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  • Driven by his own experience, this young Nigerian started an NGO to rescue street children 

    Arinze Chijioke

    February 12, 2023 |

    IkengaOnline |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Street Priests Incorporated engages with youth living on the streets in Nigeria to offer them scholarship funding, food aid, reunification with their families, and more. The organization has helped more than 17,000 children through its programs since 2014.

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  • Algunos latinos no confían en la salud mental occidental. Por eso buscan a los curanderos.

    Karen Garcia

    February 12, 2023 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Con nuevas colaboraciones entre curanderas, universidades y comunidades de profesionales de la medicina, el curanderismo está ayudando a la salud mental de los latinos (quienes no buscan terapia u otro tipo de apoyo de salud mental en las mismas proporciones que otros grupos raciales o étnicos). Aunque es difícil medir definitivamente los beneficios médicos de la curación espiritual, si hay datos afirmando que los latinos suelen recurrir a los curanderos para una amplia gama de necesidades, como el trastorno de estrés postraumático, los nervios, el susto, la depresión y el asesoramiento espiritual.

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  • Can Monthly Cash Payments Make Our Economy More Equitable?

    Sonali Kolhatkar

    February 11, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Guaranteed income programs aim to reduce poverty by providing cash to those in need with no strings attached. One of these programs in New York City, The Bridge Project, focuses on helping women of color who are mothers.

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  • These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes, and superhero skins

    Joanna Thompson

    February 10, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: United States

    Custom, designer prosthetics that serve purposes in both function and fashion are beginning to reform the prosthetics industry, allowing people to express themselves and embrace their bodies in new ways. Researchers, developers, and larger businesses are constantly innovating to create new prosthetics that can meet a person’s every need and other companies are working to make prosthetic covers more accessible so anyone can afford the option to personalize their look.

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  • Free ACs staved off heat illness for older New Yorkers during pandemic

    Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky

    February 10, 2023 |

    Gothamist |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Get Cool NYC program distributed air conditioner units to about 73,000 low-income seniors without access to ways to keep cool during the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies show that those who participated in the program were less likely to experience heat-related illness than those who didn’t participate.

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  • A Chicago Mural Project Becomes a Nationwide Movement

    Martha Contreras

    February 09, 2023 |

    Borderless Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Mural Movement uses the power of art as a tool to help Black and brown communities heal when grappling with gun violence and racism. The group works with artists who create murals of victims of gun violence and now has 186 murals nationwide.

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  • One state looks to get kids in crisis out of the ER — and back home

    Martha Bebinger

    February 09, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Home-based counseling services, like those provided by Youth Villages, help relieve understaffed hospitals struggling with boarding delays for patients experiencing a mental health crisis. Of the 536 children and teens who have opted to try these diversion services, 82% have not returned to the ER for mental health concerns and 92% have met their treatment goals or were referred for further treatment services.

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