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  • For some, prenatal care is a community affair

    June 18, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Latin American women in San Francisco have suffered from post-partum depression, social isolation, and chronic stress at the time of their pregnancies. Run by midwives, the Centering Pregnancy program at the San Francisco General Hospital provides patient-centered care, an environment to speak in Spanish, and a nurturing community for women’s group appointments. The results boast fewer c-sections and pre-term births, and an improvement in emotional support and overall prenatal health.

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  • The Power to Cure, Multiplied

    June 11, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.

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  • In S. King County, an extraordinary effort to bring better health

    April 25, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In S. King County, Wash., the organization Global to Local identified Seattle's ironic status as being a global-health center but having an increasingly unhealthy populace. Global to Local pointed local citizens to a variety of services, using a "connect the dots" approach to treatment.

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  • Making a Medicine as Easy to Find as a Can of Coke

    July 03, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Zambia

    A project to take advantage of Coca-Cola’s famous global reach designed a kit of basic medicines that fit in between Coke bottles. But it turned out that what it needed to be copying wasn’t Coke’s package delivery, but it’s investment in the people in its supply chain.

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  • Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety

    May 04, 2013 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

    In Copenhagen's fixing room, drug addicts are able to take intravenous drugs through the supervision of nurses. The room provides a clean environment with sterile needles that can be disposed of. Since it opened, there were 36,000 injections, accounting for 350 syringes being used a day, and 1,000 regular attendees. “The philosophy is that we can't change people, people can change themselves and we can be there when they want to change."

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  • A Hospital Network With a Vision

    January 16, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

    Twelve million people are blind in India, and are robbed of their livelihoods as a result. A hugely successful chain of cataract hospitals in India helped its business by treating half its patients for free.

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  • The Family Doctor, Minus the M.D.

    October 24, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Delphi, Indiana

    Thousands of clinics in America have no doctors. The primary care providers are nurse-practitioners – and their results are as good or better than that of the doctors.

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  • For Many, a Life-Saving Drug Out of Reach

    September 22, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related mortality. Naxolone, a drug used to revive overdose victims, is only available by prescription. However, private organizations have distributed Naxolone kits nationally, showing that the drug can save lives when it is more readily accessible.

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  • Facing the Future of HIV Care

    August 04, 2011 |

    POZ Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, District of Columbia

    When health care funding was cut in the United States, HIV clinics were hit harder than some other areas, impacting not just the medicine, but also the staff in these facilities. The Whitman-Walker Clinic in the District of Columbia, however, found a way to combat these changes by broadening the range of people they were caring for and mimicking service providers that were qualified as federally qualified health centers.

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  • Sharing Patents to Wipe Out AIDS

    July 21, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Mateo, California

    Once-a-day generic AIDS drugs for poor countries are hard to make because each ingredient is patented by a different pharmaceutical company. The Patent Pool provides a way for companies to donate their intellectual property safely.

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