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  • Osun's Bumpy Road To 'Health For All': Successes, Failures And Lessons

    September 15, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osogbo, Osun

    The Osun Health Insurance Scheme or O'HIS provides affordable healthcare services to residents by compulsorily enrolling residents in the program and deducting a premium from their salary. Since 2018, at least 260,000 citizens have registered for O'HIS and the agency uses Facebook, Twitter and sponsored radio programs to create awareness across the state.

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  • Cities Are Tapping Residents to Study Climate Change Impacts

    September 15, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

    The Harlem Heat Project collected data on heat and humidity from citizen scientists with sensors in their apartments. They used that data to show how external factors impact indoor temperatures and indoor heat waves to advocate for improved electricity-bill relief and cooling centers.

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  • Paying attention: Boston hospital helps breastfeeding Black moms, babies thrive

    September 12, 2022 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative provides a 10-step approach to hospital-based breastfeeding support in an effort to increase breastfeeding rates and reduce the racial disparities Black women often face during breastfeeding initiation. Breastfeeding has been shown to have a significant impact on a baby and mother’s health outcomes and the breastfeeding medicine clinic is available to anyone who is interested, including Medicaid patients who wouldn’t be able to afford the services otherwise.

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  • A single injection can help heal PTSD in Louisiana veterans: It's not a miracle cure, but close

    September 11, 2022 |

    The Times-Picayune |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisiana

    To help address suicides as well as the painful symptoms of PTSD among veterans, Andrew Ward, a veteran himself founded Acadiana Veterans Alliance. His organization works with a team of medical professionals and the Stella Center to make a treatment procedure for stellate ganglion block, or SGB, as well as therapy accessible to veterans. Since the initiation of the program in 2020, they've seen a success rate of 75 percent in treating PTSD.

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  • Antimicrobial resistance: Patient led contact tracing helping Ugandan medics to fight drug resistant TB

    September 10, 2022 |

    West Nile Today News |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Since 2017, the Defeat TB (tuberculosis) program supported by USAID introduced a patient contact tracing program in Uganda wherein health workers and facilitators have been trained to trace a patient with multidrug-resistant TB back to their community to screen family members, conduct tests, and refer them for Xrays or treatment if needed. Introduced in the Mulago referral hospital, the program has since expanded to 16 other centers. Along with counseling, follow-ups, and provision of food assistance, it has helped increase the TB detection and treatment rate over the years.

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  • Making women dry; here's how a foundation is reducing Nigeria's fistula burden

    September 09, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Fistula Foundation Nigeria helps women with obstetric fistula get free treatment and get back to daily life. The organization also works to prevent obstetric fistula through public education and training doctors.

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

    September 06, 2022 |

    BBC |

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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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  • Uganda's swift response to yellow fever outbreaks pays off despite challenges

    September 06, 2022 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Wakiso

    Uganda's National Guidelines for Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response outlines procedures for detection, testing, and tracking of contagious illnesses. The strategy helped curb an outbreak of yellow fever in Wakiso district after health workers determined that the five cases that emerged there were in people who had recently traveled and brought the disease back with them.

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

    September 05, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

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    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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  • Greece: Dental care for refugees

    September 05, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    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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