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  • How Liberia's frontline health workers are protecting us all

    Peter Yeung
    2022-09-06 18:22:54 UTC
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    September 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Liberia

    Liberia's community health worker program taps residents of rural areas to receive training in disease surveillance and basic health care, creating a network of on-the-ground professionals to report potential outbreaks before they begin to spread. The program has contributed to more rapid treatment of malaria cases, with 71 percent of cases treated within 24 hours in 2021, and has significantly increased the number of rural residents with access to care.

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  • Cleveland Water replaces 100% of lead service lines to day care centers; interior work remains

    Owen MacMillan, Brie Camp
    2023-10-09 17:06:57 UTC
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    September 06, 2022 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland Water has inspected water lines at the 445 state-licensed local childcare facilities built before 1953 to check for lead contamination since July 2021. Over half the inspected facilities were found to have lead-contaminated service lines and Cleveland Water replaced every single one of them and also provided educational water safety resources to childcare providers to ensure the water used in the facilities remains safe.

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  • Juhudi za kupunguza mkurupuko wa homa ya Dengue Mombasa Part -2

    Ruth Keah
    2023-05-22 16:51:53 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Ili kukabili mkurupuko wa homa ya dengue, serikali ya kaunti ya Mombasa pia iliajiri vijana waliozibua mitaro ya maji taka na kutibu visima vya maji kila eneo bunge. Wakazi pia walishauriwa kujipaka mafuta ya kufukuza mbu na kuvaa nguo ndefu za kufunika miguu.

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  • Juhudi za kupunguza mkurupuko wa homa ya Dengue Mombasa Part -1

    Ruth Keah
    2023-05-19 18:50:11 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Serikali ya kaunti ya Mombasa ilitumia wahudumu wa afya wakujitolea kutoa hamasa kwa jamii kuhusu umuhimu wa kuweka mazingira safi.Kila mhudumu wa afya alipewa nyumba 50 za kutembelea na kuwahamasisha wanajamii kuhusu maswala ya afya hasa homa ya dengue.Hatua iliyopelekea kupungua kwa visa vya homa ya dengue.

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  • This Support Group Is Helping Youths Overcome Drug, Substance Abuse In Kaduna

    Isaac Oritogun
    2023-02-22 19:02:56 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Youth Orphans and Widows Empowerment organization works to help young people experiencing addiction through various projects including psychosocial support and connections to organizations that help them develop skills and find housing. Over the years the group has linked dozens of people to different treatments, as well as vocational training to help them find jobs.

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  • Greece: Dental care for refugees

    Marius Reichert
    2022-09-29 15:03:39 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Documentary |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Greece, Chios

    A father/daughter dentist duo provides dental services to refugees in need of care by setting up a pop-up clinic at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios. The pop-up clinic provides much-needed dental care to the refugees who haven’t had the ability to care for their teeth during their journey to Europe and dentists from around the world will take turns staffing the clinic on a volunteer basis.

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  • The hospital train helping Ukraine's sick and wounded

    Amandas Og
    2022-09-09 19:49:44 UTC
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    September 04, 2022 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine

    In Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, operates a specialized train service to transport patients from hospitals in battle-torn areas of the country to facilities in safer regions. The train, which is outfitted with beds, generators for medical equipment, and an intensive care unit, has evacuated more than 1,000 people in critical need of treatment so far, including those with war-related injuries as well as chronic health concerns.

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  • How Telementoring Programme Aided Sudan's Fight against COVID-19

    Sharon Atieno
    2022-09-21 22:35:56 UTC
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    September 02, 2022 |

    Science Africa |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sudan

    To make healthcare more accessible and relieve overwhelmed medical centers, Sudanese American doctors used telementoring to train over 400 medical students across Sudan in the necessary skills to serve their local communities.

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  • Doctors use a new approach to treat obesity

    Katie Ussin
    2022-09-03 02:50:16 UTC
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    September 01, 2022 |

    WEWS-TV |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Elyria, Ohio

    Some medical professionals are revising the way they address obesity and treat patients with the disease by addressing stigma and prescribing new anti-obesity medications. These new medications yield 15% to 20% weight loss over six months or longer, compared to their less effective counterparts.

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  • Some believe hydrocephalus is a spiritual attack, how a Kwara-based initiative is tackling the notion

    Mohammed Taoheed
    2022-09-10 21:06:08 UTC
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    August 30, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    Givers Supportive Foundation provides free surgery for children with hydrocephalus and other chronic childhood illnesses by connecting with a network of neurosurgeons abroad. Beyond the surgeries, the organization also doubles as counselors and arranges one-on-one discussions with the parents of young patients with hydrocephalus, offering support throughout the treatment process.

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  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

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  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

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