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  • Italian volunteers transform an old custom of generosity into a powerful weapon in the battle against Covid 19

    June 17, 2021 |

    News48 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Milan

    Milan’s tampone sospeso or “suspended test” initiative provides rapid COVID-19 tests to stop the spread of the virus. The initiative sets up in highly visible public areas of Milan and is based on a model of mutual support where everyone pays what they can. It is run with the help of over 50 volunteers and Medicina Solidale, a group of medical professionals who provide free medical advice to those who can’t afford to access care. The project has raised 24,000 euros from 436 donors, which has enabled them to administer rapid antigenic swabs to more than 3000 people.

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  • ‘Bring the things to the people': Why tenants and experts want more vaccination options

    June 15, 2021 |

    TVO |

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    Response Location: Canada, Hamilton, Ontario

    After a COVID-19 outbreak at a Hamilton apartment complex, officials began offering on-site appointments, particularly for people who are homebound. About 1,400 people have gotten the shot at their residence and many more at pop-up clinics. The decentralized approach is more resource intensive but is effective at reaching people at high risk for contracting the virus. Doctors at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine used the patient-centered approach to vaccinate a pre-identified list of Scarborough residents, mapping routes to ensure vaccines were used up within their six-hour time limit.

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  • Centre jeune Amour et Vie : là où on freine les grossesses en milieu scolaire au bénin

    June 08, 2021 |

    StopBlabla |

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    Response Location: Benin

    Au Bénin, depuis 2013, des centres d’information sur la sexualité sont installés dans des collèges et lycées afin de faire diminuer le nombre de grossesse en milieu scolaire. D’un collège doté de Centre Jeunesse Amour et Vie à un autre, la courbe des grossesses est descendante pour les trois visités.

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  • The Shot And A Shave: Inside A COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic At A Nashua Barbershop

    June 08, 2021 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashua, New Hampshire

    Community health workers are engaging small business owners to host local COVID-19 vaccination clinics. These smaller clinics, like La Fama 2 Barbershop, are effective because of the strength of interpersonal relationships. At the barber shop, the atmosphere is relaxed and the owner knows the needs of his customers. To make the information and vaccines accessible to the local Latino community, the clinic held Saturday afternoon hours and community health workers were present with information in Portuguese and Spanish. It helps for friends and families to get vaccinated together, among people they trust.

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  • Community Ambassadors Are the Link to Toronto's Unvaccinated Populations

    June 04, 2021 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Toronto’s Vaccine Engagement Teams Grant has awarded $5.5 million to community organizations in 140 neighborhoods to hire and train local ambassadors for vaccine outreach. Because the ambassadors share a lived experience with the communities, they can effectively identify the barriers people face. The on-the-ground effort includes sharing information, advocating for community needs, and helping people access services. The outreach focuses on people often overlooked by government services, such as unhoused people and people who do not speak English or have precarious immigration status.

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  • How Philadelphia escaped disaster in the face of a dozen shuttered maternity wards

    June 04, 2021 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A large number of hospital closures pushed the remaining obstetrics chiefs to work together to maintain safe and accessible maternity care, especially for low-income and English as a second language community members. The consortium shared best practices and established easily transferrable common electronic medical records. Hospitals triaged patients by needs and transferred them if needed, rather than prioritizing income generation and competition. Doctors practiced a “laborist” model where they were assigned to be on the labor and delivery floor rather than follow a particular caseload of patients.

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  • N.C. has vaccinated over 13,000 farmworkers. Advocates are making it happen.

    May 28, 2021 |

    Southerly |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Because of coordinated partnerships between local governments, state health departments, and nonprofit groups, more and more farmworkers are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. Through the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Farmworker Health program and its partners, nearly 14,000 doses were administered to the farmworker community over two months. Advocates also have to dispel rumors and myths about the vaccines, but they are working to combat that misinformation and make it easier for them to get vaccinated.

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  • Más de 13 mil trabajadores agrícolas de NC están vacunados. Los defensores han hecho que esto suceda

    May 28, 2021 |

    Enlace Latino NC |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    El Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Carolina del Norte (Estados Unidos) informó que se administraron 13.998 dosis de la vacuna COVID-19 a la comunidad de trabajadores agrícolas entre el 3 de marzo y el 21 de mayo del 2021, lo que representa el 19% de los 72.000 trabajadores agrícolas estimados para ese año. Al menos 7.495 de estos trabajadores han completado las dosis necesarias. La velocidad a la que los trabajadores agrícolas se están vacunando se atribuye a las asociaciones coordinadas que se han establecido entre los grupos de defensa sin fines de lucro, los departamentos y clínicas de salud

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  • How Native Americans launched successful coronavirus vaccination drives: ‘A story of resilience'

    May 26, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    Comprehensive COVID-19 vaccination strategies helped some Native American Nations achieve high vaccination rates. Tribal sovereignty gave Nations the flexibility to create their own methods of distributing the vaccine and allowed officials to distribute doses to hard-to-reach areas – even by dog sled in Alaska. They could prioritize who to vaccinate and diversify how vaccines were offered – from private appointments to mass-vaccination events – to ensure broad accessibility. Medical professionals, tribal leaders, and Native youth used social media to share information and encourage people to get vaccinated.

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  • The Healing Force of Family

    May 24, 2021 |

    Stanford Social Innovation Review |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: India

    Through the use of video storytelling classes, two graduate students developed a pilot project that is helping to "teach medical caregiving skills to families of cardiac patients" in India. The project proved so helpful during the initial stages that a local hospital adopted the training program and it is now being implemented across other regions as well.

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