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  • Transforming Maternal Care: Empowering Midwives in Niger State Through Supportive Supervision

    June 28, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    The Niger State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has recruited 200 midwives, assigning at least one to healthcare facilities across the state, in an effort to address high rates of maternal and infant death during childbirth. There are currently 266 midwives distributed among facilities, helping aid in midwife retention and increase access to care.

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  • Breaking the Cycle of Maternal Mortality (Woman Die Die Mata)

    June 27, 2023 |

    Naija 102.7 FM |

    Podcast |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo State

    The state Ministry of Health in partnership with other local organizations is providing educational, medical outreach for pregnant women to discuss malaria, maternal mortality and the importance of having regular medical checkups, while providing necessary resources to increase their access to care.

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  • How FFF's intervention is changing the narrative for children with spina bifida

    June 26, 2023 |

    BONews |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The “Saving Lives! Improving Futures” project by the Festus Fajemilo Foundation works to help children with spina bifida who face incontinence issues reduce feelings of social isolation, preserve renal function, increase student retention and improve their overall quality of life. Since the project launched in 2017, it has benefited more than 150 people.

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  • When cerebral palsy is not a death sentence

    June 26, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Umuahia, Abia

    The Straight Child Foundation works to increase the quality of care provided to children with cerebral palsy and their families. The Foundation has provided physiotherapy and speech therapy to about 35 children with CP and has provided 20 wheelchairs specifically designed for those with CP. The Foundation also hosts yearly camps where CP patients can connect and interact with healthcare workers and other people with CP.

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  • In addressing the health system inequalities, Nigeria has a lot to learn from Malawi and South Africa

    June 21, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    In an effort to improve inequities in access to healthcare, the local government partnered with forces in Germany to create a drone project that uses artificial intelligence to deliver medical supplies to remote, rural areas, including antibiotics, pregnancy tests and pain medicine. So far this collaboration has carried out 166 supply deliveries.

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  • “Providing Dignity to Humanity,” Free Clinics Expand Mental Health Care

    June 21, 2023 |

    Direct Relief |

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    Response Location: United States, Apple Valley, California

    Free clinics like Symba Center provide primary care and mental health services to the area’s most vulnerable populations. As a result of a $75,000 grant dispersed to 11 free and charitable clinics in the area, clinics like Symba Center have been able to hire additional staff, launch internship programs, provide educational resources, increase collaboration among local organizations and providers and begin offering mental health screening. So far, Symba Center and other area clinics have screened about 22,000 people.

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  • Care for the Neediest

    June 20, 2023 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Bulgaria, Sofia

    The Health and Social Development Foundation (HESED) aims to increase access to healthcare, specifically among pregnant women and children. HESED works to bring doctors closer to communities that struggle to get care and has also created designated spaces for important care that was previously inaccessible, like OBGYN checkups. Over the last three years, more than 400 people have received checkups from the center, regardless of their insurance status.

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  • Medeecal: An e-health platform closes the medical desert in West Africa

    June 19, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    The Medeecal app increases healthcare access by providing a range of telehealth services including health education, free medical consultations, preventative care, referrals and follow-up care. As of March 2023, the app has over 1,000 registered patients and provides about eight consultations a day.

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  • How a Black Community Brought Affordable Health Care and Clean Water to Rural South Carolina in the 1970s

    June 19, 2023 |

    Direct Relief |

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    Response Location: United States, Beaufort, South Carolina

    Facing a lack of potable water and government help, local advocates joined forces to find solutions and created an affordable community health center called Comp Health, and later their own water source, the Levy Limehouse Bellinger Hill Water Company in the 1970s. The new water system created jobs and helped influence better outcomes for the predominantly Black areas it served by eliminating contaminated water, decreasing infant mortality by two-thirds.

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  • On the Brink of Homelessness, San Diego Woman Wins the Medi-Cal Lottery

    June 13, 2023 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    California’s Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, is piloting a program that covers rental move-in costs for low-income people in need, specifically those experiencing or at risk of homelessness. The goal is to keep people out of expensive institutions, like emergency rooms, by providing services like housing assistance and healthy food. So far, 20 locals have received Medi-Cal’s housing move-in assistance.

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