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  • Long COVID survivors seek support, treatment from NY and federal programs

    June 06, 2022 |

    The Journal News |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York

    Programs are emerging to help connect people suffering from long COVID-19 with necessary health care and government resources, like the Aftercare program that launched in April 2021. Aftercare uses contact tracing to reach people who reported lingering COVID-19 symptoms to connect them with health experts who help them manage their symptoms and access resources to address their health and social needs like mental health services, help with disability claims, or health insurance subsidies. The Aftercare program has referred more than 50,000 people to long COVID-19 treatment clinics and other aid.

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  • Una aplicación gratuita brinda asistencia en emergencias con una red de voluntarios capacitados en primeros auxilios

    June 05, 2022 |

    Red/Acción |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Argentina

    Según la American Heart Association, diez minutos es el tiempo necesario para salvar a una persona que atraviesa un evento cardíaco mientras llega la ambulancia. En ciudades de América Latina, los servicios de emergencia tienen un tiempo de respuesta promedio de veinte o veinticinco minutos. La plataforma Helpers ha logrado conectar de manera gratuita a más de 3.300 usuarios que necesitan ayuda durante una urgencia, con voluntarios entrenados para intervenir hasta que llega la asistencia profesional.

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  • How cancer patients are getting funding for treatment in Nigeria

    June 03, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

    Project Pink Blue helps cancer patients access treatment by raising funds, training medical personnel, and connecting patients in need with sponsors through their Adopt a Patient initiative. Project Pink Blue has also advocated for better healthcare policies in the state and even provides jobs to cancer survivors to help integrate them back into society.

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  • Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?

    April 11, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

    ALL IN is a produce prescription program that gives patients, who are dealing with a variety of cardio-metabolic or behavioral conditions, free fruits and vegetables paired with behavioral interventions, like exercise. Its “three-ingredient approach” includes a prescription for 16 weekly bags of produce that are delivered for free by a local farm, free exercise and stress-reduction classes, and food-as-medicine training for clinic staff who are key in patients’ success.

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  • Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?

    April 11, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Melalogic is an app that provides skin health resources to people with dark skin. The uses crowdsourced imaging data to confront racial bias in diagnostic artificial intelligence. Users can access the Black Skin Resource Center with information on 14 issues that affect people with darker skin. The app also shares health posters that physicians use to share information with their patients and videos with dermatologic tips. In the works is Melalogic 2.0, an immersive telehealth experience.

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  • 'Forever Chemicals,' COVID And Results From A New At-Home PFAS Test

    March 31, 2022 |

    KOVR-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    A first-of-its-kind at-home test can detect PFAS levels in the body with a finger prick. Also known as forever chemicals, PFAS are linked to various health concerns.

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  • Anti-vax preachers and the race to vaccinate South Sudan

    March 27, 2022 |

    Unreported World |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Sudan

    Crown Agents is an international development organization working to get people vaccinated against COVID-19, despite vaccine shortages and misinformation from anti-vaxxers.

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  • ‘Chipping away at barriers': Nurse practitioners filling primary-care gap

    March 15, 2022 |

    Healthy Debate |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    Nurse practitioner-led clinics in Ontario, Canada, are open for same-day appointments to care for people without a primary health-care provider and decrease the number of emergency-room patients.

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  • Tucson crisis center expanding services for faster mental health care

    March 03, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Crisis Response Center provides mental health and crisis care services as an alternative to emergency rooms or jails. The center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers a variety of services focused on recovery for children, teens and adults struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse. The Center is set to expand ahead of the new 988 dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Once expansions are done, the Center will have the capacity to serve between 400 and 600 extra visits a month, on top of the 800 to 1,000 adults who visit the center each month.

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  • Faith based group offers hope to girls suffering vesicovaginal fistula

    February 24, 2022 |

    Sparkling 92.3 FM |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

    Medical Missionaries of Mary is a Christian faith-based organization that works to complement the government's efforts of helping those experiencing vesicovaginal fistula by providing access to surgery for free. The group also addresses stigma around the condition and helps create a sense of community for patients.

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