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In Cameroon, epilepsy myths fuel stigma but a nonprofit is changing the narrative

Promise Eze

November 03, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Cameroon, Bamenda

The Epilepsy Awareness, Aid, and Research Foundation is a nonprofit that fights to reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with epilepsy. The Foundation provides free basic healthcare, anti-epileptic medications, and even has a program that trains youth to raise awareness of epilepsy and the stigma surrounding it within their communities.

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After Roe, abortion's underground railroad gains steam

Emily Schultheis Carlo Martuscelli Mandoline Rutkowski Jakub Korus

October 29, 2022 |

Politico |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Poland

Women Help Women is one of several organizations around the world that have formed to provide women with pills needed to complete an at-home medical abortion. An international group of doctors review online medical history questionnaires and provide women with prescriptions for the procedure. The groups are part of a network seeking to increase women's access to abortion as more and more countries pass laws limiting women's abortion access.

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Outpatient therapies now offered locally target treatment-resistant depression

Olivia Belanger

September 29, 2022 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Brattleboro, Vermont

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is being used to treat people with treatment-resistant depression. The noninvasive procedure uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerves in the brain to improve symptoms of depression. So far 19 people have undergone the program at Brattleboro Retreat — many of which have seen improvements in their symptoms — and more than 300 treatments have been completed to date.

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'No matter the law, no matter the stigma, no matter the cost.' This European network helps people access abortions

Kara Fox

September 28, 2022 |

CNN |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

The Abortion Without Borders (AWB) network is a grassroots organization that helps people from restrictive countries access safe abortions in countries that legally provide them. From December 2020 to December 2021, AWB has helped 32,000 people from Poland access abortions across Europe – an almost six-fold increase from the previous year.

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As COVID-19 Subsides, Online Memory Cafes for Dementia Linger

Elizabeth Hewitt

September 28, 2022 |

Next Avenue |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Barre, Vermont

Virtual memory cafes for people with dementia are able to reach more people, avoid transportation and mobility barriers, and open new possibilities — like making new friends across the ocean. First pioneered in the Netherlands in the 1990s, memory cafes have spread around the world as a way for people experiencing memory loss and caregivers can find community and companionship.

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The Other Abortion Pill

Patrick Adams

September 19, 2022 |

The Atlantic |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, access to safe, legal abortion in the U.S. is scarce. While several states have banned mifepristone and misoprostol — the two drugs that makeup abortion pills — misoprostol, which has been found to be the more effective of the two, can still be accessed at some pharmacies and through nonprofits in the U.S. and overseas like Plan C and Aid Access.

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

Richard Drasimaku

September 10, 2022 |

West Nile Today News |

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1500-3000 Words

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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How Liberia's frontline health workers are protecting us all

Peter Yeung

September 06, 2022 |

BBC |

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1500-3000 Words

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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In Niger, 'Friends Of The Poor' Fights Child Marriage, Helps HIV/AIDS Patients Pursue Their Dreams

Victor Akuma

August 26, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Minna, Niger

Friends of the Poor Foundation in Africa is a localized version of Friends of the Poor, a nonprofit in the U.S. that provides funds, food and medicine to those in need. Friends of the Poor provides HIV/AIDS support groups to help those living with HIV learn to overcome stigma and gain access to antiretroviral drugs.

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Malaria control in Nigeria: Gains, lessons from Kwara Initiative

Usman Aliyu

August 16, 2022 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

The Kwara Initiative provides free rapid test kits and treatment for malaria to over 500 public health centers in the state. The initiative also issued the State Malaria Elimination Program, which works to help control cases of malaria in the state. So far, over 5,000 households have benefitted from the free malaria treatment.

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