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  • Infectious Diseases Prevention: The Transformative Power of a Community-led Initiative in Lagos

    February 03, 2025 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    DRASA Health Trust trains community members to be health champions, teaching them skills to prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases. Between March and April 2024, the group trained 2,089 people. As a result of their education initiatives, DRASA Health Trust saw a 43.2% increase in residents’ understanding of infectious diseases, as well as the implementation of prevention strategies and better hygiene protocols for both businesses and individuals.

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  • This city is hailed as a vaccination success. Can it be sustained?

    September 15, 2024 |

    Associated Press |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    The Louisville school system is working to fill the vaccination gap among youth by establishing vaccine clinics at nearly all 160 schools, particularly those where immigrant students who are behind on their vaccinations are starting school. Since implementing these clinics, the vaccination rate during the last school year increased by 4%.

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  • Ensuring Sustained Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services in Internally Displacement Camps - Nigeria Health Watch

    July 01, 2024 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Durumi, Abuja

    The Durumi camp for internally displaced persons was suffering from unsanitary, unsafe water conditions until the Rotary Club and Nigerian Institution of Water Engineers installed water tanks to provide clean, easily accessible water to the community. In addition, the groups also hosted educational sessions about personal hygiene to help prevent the spread of bacteria and waterborne diseases.

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  • De l'alcool médical produit à partir de fruits avariés

    December 06, 2023 |

    SciDev.Net |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Cameroon

    Pendant la crise de COVID-19, un chercheur indépendant en chimie industrielle a commencé d’utiliser des fruits avariés pour fabriquer de l’alcool nécessaire au gel hydroalcoolique. Les analyses montrent que le gel est tout aussi efficace que le désinfectant traditionnel, et les travailleurs médicaux qui utilisent le produit disent qu’il provoque moins d’irritation de la peau.

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  • Nepal's Covid-19 Immunization Campaign – An Unlikely Frontrunner

    August 23, 2023 |

    Inter Press Service News Agency |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Manang

    Through well-coordinated efforts by healthcare workers, those living in rural, hard-to-reach areas were able to access the COVID-19 vaccine. As of July 2023, 83.9% of the country’s total population had been vaccinated with their first dose and 83.4% had received their second dose.

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  • Pushed to action (II) : To prevent diseases, these communities unite to provide clean water

    July 26, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Akakwu, Enugu State

    As a result of locals writing to their political representatives, the Nigerian government began a borehole intervention project to provide more than 2,000 residents with clean, easily accessible water. The project also provided a generator to address the village’s lack of power supply and residents pay N20 ($0.02) to access the borehole, which covers the cost of running the generator.

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  • Empowered volunteers war against neglected diseases in Plateau, Niger, FCT

    July 22, 2023 |

    The Nation (Nigeria) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    Teams of Community Direct Distributors (CDD) are leading drug distribution campaigns to prevent and eliminate neglected tropical diseases in hard-to-reach, rural areas. These CDDs are members of the community they serve and are trained to educate the locals on disease prevention and administer the drugs themselves. With the CDDs’ help, several states have already eliminated some diseases and greatly reduced the spread of others.

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  • Relief in troubled Northcentral communities as joint efforts decimate river blindness

    July 08, 2023 |

    The Nation (Nigeria) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Seri, Plateau State

    In collaboration with local government and organizations, The Carter Center launched an initiative to curb the spread of neglected tropical diseases, like river blindness. Throughout the initiative, the Center provided health education to rural communities most affected by the disease and also led a mass drug administration of Mectizan, which is known to kill the parasite that causes river blindness. Over 20 years, the Center administered 27 million doses of the medication, effectively eliminating the disease.

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  • India's social health activists are tackling cancer in rural communities

    April 10, 2023 |

    Nature |

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    Response Location: India, East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya

    Social health activists provide health care services to local communities, serving as a liaison between the community and public health system. Social health activists provide maternal care, polio immunizations, communicable disease prevention and promote and educate locals on nutrition, sanitation, and healthy living practices. Every village has a social health activist who is from that village and speaks the local language, allowing them to build trust and connect with locals in need of care.

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  • Seattle set aside $100k for street sinks. Two years later, where are they?

    March 31, 2023 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Several U.S. cities — and groups like the Clean Hands Collective — are obtaining funding to install public sinks to provide those experiencing homelessness access to better hygiene, thus combating the spread of disease. Some cities, like Portland, have even created portable toilets and other cities are installing public showers as well.

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