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Drug aid saving underprivileged from Nigeria's healthcare nightmare

Samson Toromade

August 13, 2021 |

Pulse Nigeria |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

Drug Aid Africa supports low-income Nigerians by providing free medications to help ease burdens of healthcare affordability. The NGO partners with organizations that serve low-income communities, including hospitals, orphanages, elderly care homes, and other grassroots community groups. They provide each organization with boxes of donated medications that are tailored to the needs of the population being served. For example, orphanages receive boxes stocked with the supplies most needed by children. The supplies are mostly bought using cash donations but some pharmaceutical companies also donate materials.

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New Mid-South clinic helps kids from missing yearly check-ups

Kelli Cook

July 31, 2021 |

WMC-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Legacy of Legends, a nonprofit that helps families overcome traumatic experiences that often stem from poverty, opened the Frayser Clinic to provide free wellness exams to children. The clinic is run out of a local church and is open twice a month to help families access care. At each visit a doctor assesses a child’s physical health, mental and behavioral health and the clinic provides families with information about social services and connects them with a healthcare navigator, who helps families understand their child’s health insurance and reconnect them to a primary care physician.

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Cómo las promotoras de salud ayudan a frenar el COVID-19 en las plantas avícolas de Carolina del Norte

Victoria Bouloubasis

July 13, 2021 |

Enlace Latino NC |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Duplin, North Carolina

Mujeres rurales han trabajado en alianza con organiciones públicas y privadas para convertirse en promotras de salud comunitaria durante la pandemia. Cuando plantas avícolas y otras industrias no presentaron ningún plan para vacunar a sus trabajadores, y barreras culturales y de idioma complicaron la vacunación de poblaciones latinas y Negras, el activismo directo de estas mujeres ha tenido un impacto positivo, y ahora las mujeres desean continuar para buscar mejoras en las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores en general.

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Push on to boost mental health support for first responders

Elvia Verdugo

July 09, 2021 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

The Peer Support Team at Northwest Fire District connects firefighters with a trained peer support specialist to talk confidentially about mental health. The program also connects firefighters in need with additional resources like therapy and counseling. In an effort to change the mindset most first responders have toward mental health, there are currently 50 trained peer support specialists throughout the state and more than 1,000 across the country.

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‘Know Your Script' initiative shows success in fight against opioid epidemic

Sydney Glenn

July 08, 2021 |

KSTU-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Utah

Intermountain Healthcare implemented an opioid reduction plan as part of Utah’s statewide ‘Know Your Script’ initiative. The plan, which includes an opioid-free surgery program that utilizes nerve blockers and non-opioid pain medications, has led to 11 million fewer opioid prescriptions. While not all surgeries can be performed this way, it has given recovering addicts a treatment alternative. The healthcare system also educates medical staff on ways to reduce opioid prescriptions and empowers patients to tell their providers that they do not want opioids.

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In Southwest Virginia, Reestablishing a Rural Hospital System Requires Rebuilding Trust

Taylor Sisk

July 08, 2021 |

100 Days in Appalachia |

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Response Location: United States, Virginia

When two hospital systems merged to create Ballad Health, agreements ensured all hospitals would stay open for at least five years and essential services in each of the rural and poorly served counties would be maintained. Enforceable price controls lowered patient costs and, in an effort to rebuild community trust and improve overall health, $308 million was committed to community-based care. The community health programs are based on the missions of organizations like Health Wagon, which serves its rural patients by forming personal relationships, being easily accessible, and understanding their needs.

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‘This Isn't a Dying Coal Town,' It's a West Virginia Community Rethinking Health Care and Succeeding

Taylor Sisk

July 01, 2021 |

100 Days in Appalachia |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Williamson, West Virginia

Williamson Health and Wellness Center is a federally qualified health center in rural West Virginia, that provides medical, dental, and mental health care as well as chronic-disease management and wellness coaching on a sliding scale. The health center addresses social determinants of health with programs like fresh produce delivery, a community garden, and workforce development. The community health worker program has seen success by hiring local people to visit patients at home and work with them to monitor their blood sugar, take their medications properly, and learn healthy lifestyle choices.

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How ‘hockey hub' clinics are changing the vaccine game in Ontario

Justin Chandler

June 30, 2021 |

TVO |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada, Ontario

The “hockey hub” mass-vaccination model uses large spaces, like sports arenas, to vaccinate up to 70 people per hour, compared to 6-10 with traditional systems. Rows of 30 cubicles, each with a single chair, allow a health professional and an assistant to visit each patient with their vaccine-laden cart and quickly get consent and administer the vaccine. Once they finish the row, the first person to get their shot has waited the required post-vaccine observation time. The model requires less staff and time spent disinfecting surfaces in between patients, which substantially lowers the cost per vaccine.

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How the White Mountain Apache Tribe Beat COVID

Alberto Mariani

June 30, 2021 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, White Mountain Apache Nation, Arizona

The White Mountain Apache Tribe curbed COVID-19 death rates with contact-tracing, surveillance of high-risk people, and vaccinations. After a devastating COVID-19 outbreak, health officials began daily home visits to monitor vital signs of those who tested positive and those at greatest risk, allowing positive cases to be identified early. In combination with prior health outreach programs, this helped the team to form strong bonds with tribal members, which has been key to the program’s success. This familiarity has also helped them address vaccine hesitancy as they vaccinate people in their homes.

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Nutrition Interventions Securing Livelihoods in Hard-to-Reach Areas of Borno

Patrick Egwu

June 29, 2021 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

Doctors Without Borders treats malnutrition in areas of Nigeria facing food shortages due to violence and insurgency. When safe, it runs a mobile clinic to provide basic health care, including nutritional support, particularly to children. When communities are not safe enough to enter, the organization trains community members in basic patient care and provides them the tools to run basic tests and treat malnutrition. Community health workers are also trained to treat patients, dispense medications, and educate caregivers about child nutrition.

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