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  • How One Community Brought Child Mortality Down From 154 To 7 Per 1,000 Live Births

    Peter Yeung

    July 12, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Mali, Bamako

    Providing door-to-door health care for mothers and children under five years of age greatly reduces mortality. Thanks to a program of home visits by community health care workers funded by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Yirimadio neighborhood of Mali’s capital city, Bamako, has succeeded in dramatically reducing childhood mortality. The government intends to scale the pilot program into a nationwide campaign by 2022.

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  • Norway recycles 97% of its plastic bottles: a blueprint for the rest of the world?

    Peter Yeung

    February 26, 2019 |

    Positive.News |

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    Response Location: Norway

    Infinitum, a Norwegian company, aims to create a never-ending loop of plastic reuse and their deposit hub recycles 97 percent of the country’s plastic drink bottles. While critics question the focus on continuing to produce plastic since it relies on fossil fuels, similar collection schemes in other countries could reduce plastic waste.

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